Polaroid, owning patents to its polarizer technology, got its start by employing polarization in products that included 3-D movies and protective goggles for military dogs. Land later returned to Harvard to continue his research. Land, having completed his freshman year at Harvard University, left to pursue this market, resulting in Polaroid's birth. Polaroid’s initial market was in polarized sunglasses - spawned from Land’s self-guided research in light polarization. It has been described by The Boston Globe as a 'juggernaut of innovation', and 'the Apple of its time' with a 'leader in Edwin Land, a scientist who guided the company as the founding CEO for four decades'. The original Polaroid Corporation was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, by Edwin Land and George W.

The Impossible Project was renamed Polaroid Originals in September 2017, and in March 2020 was renamed to simply Polaroid. In May 2017, the brand and intellectual property of Polaroid Corporation were acquired by the largest shareholder of the Impossible Project, which had originally started out in 2008 by producing new instant films for Polaroid cameras. The 'new' Polaroid formed as a result, itself declared bankruptcy in 2008, resulting in a further sale to Polish billionaire Wiaczesław Smołokowski. When the original Polaroid Corporation was declared bankrupt in 2001, its brand and assets were sold off. Its peak employment was 21,000 in 1978, and its peak revenue was $3 billion in 1991. Land, to exploit the use of its Polaroid polarizing polymer. The company was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Polaroid was an American company best known for its instant film and cameras.

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