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PRESS RELEASE
FROM CHINA GILTS '99 ;
 
Polariod is
pleased to be a sponsor of the CHINA GILTS '99 Golf Exhibition
and Conference.
The world's
leading provider of instant photographic products has been in China for
over ten years, and remains committed to the long term development
of the Chinese economy.
Polaroid Shanghai
Ltd. employs
over 500 workers and produces over 1 million cameras per year
for export to countries worldwide. Our sales and marketing subsidiary,
Polaroid Industry China, Ltd. has offices in the four largest
urban centres, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu, and
distributes a wide range of products for identification, business
and personal use.
POLAROID:
A Story of instant success
 The
birth and evolution of instant photography is a story of one
scientist's dream and its realization. It is the story of Edwin
H Land, his revolutionary discovery of an instant picture-making
process, his founding of the Polaroid Corporation, and the global
impact of both.
As a student
at Harvard College in the 1920's, Land worked on light polarization.
In 1932, he developed a means of producing an extensive sheet
of synthetic light-polarizing material, and later that year formed
Land-Wheel-wright Laboratories with Harvard physics instructor
George Wheelwright III. By 1935, the company had a patent for
sheet polarizer and contract from both Eastman Kodak and the
American Optical Company.
The "instant"
story began in 1943 when Land was vacationing in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, and took a picture of his three-year-old daughter with
a conventional 35mm camera. When she impatiently asked why she
could not see the picture immediately, he began to think. Why
shouldn't there be a process that provided an opportunity to
view the subject and the resulting photography instantaneously?
Should you
require further information, then please do not hesitate to contact
Stephen Allen at Golf World Group in Australia:
PO BOX 309, South Perth, 6951, Western Australia
Fax: AUSTRALIA ..+61 + 8 9386 2696
MOBILE: +61 (0) 419 823 323
email: stephenallen@golfworldgroup.com.au
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