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Chemical Landmark. Symposium, Sunday Aug 16, 2015 ACS National Meeting,
Boston, MA
Organizers: Jack Driscoll, Vivian Walworth & Mike Filosa
Sponsored by HIST and Cosponsored by PRES
Where/When: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center,Room 50 (Exhibition Level)
Time: 2:00-430 PM
Judy
Giordan:
R
&
D
at
Polaroid-
Spectra
-
the
Last
Great
Polaroid
Film
Product
From
unique
mul.-layer
coated
nega.ves,
to
amazing
cameras,
to
what
is
considered
by
many
to
be
the
rst
high
tech
start
up
emulated
by
many
followers
including
Apple,
Polaroid
was
a
place
for
technological
and
personal
rsts
-
and
lasts
-
for
many
of
its
employees.
It
was
my
rst
job,
rst
.me
as
a
supervisor,
and
my
rst
role
in
leading
a
company-wide
product
development
and
open
team
(not
a
construct
enjoyed
at
Polaroid
outside
of
the
lm
manufacturing
world
of
New
Bedford)
which
commercialized
the
last
major
Polaroid
lm
product,
The
Spectra
System.
It
is
where
I
met
my
husband,
made
many
long
las.ng
friendships
and
learned
from
the
experiences,
good
and
challenging,
that
formed
the
basis
of
my
career
in
the
chemical
and
consumer
products
industries.
Please
join
me
as
I
describe
my
journey
in
scien.c
discovery,
product
development
and
applied
research
in
lm
development
and
discovery
at
Polaroid
from
sheet
to
pod
to
nega.ve
to
lm
system.
Larry
Friedman:
Secrets
of
the
Polaroid
Nega?ve:
Manufacturing
and
Analy?cs
in
New
Bedford
Lawrence
Friedman
Bill
McCune
and
his
protg,
Mac
Booth,
had
willed
a
brand-new
lm
nega=ve
factory
designed
from
the
ground
up
to
perform
from
the
moment
the
rst
switch
was
pulled.
It
produced
faultlessly
the
one
element
of
the
system
that
was
indispensible,
an
incredibly
precise,
mul=layered
nega=ve
tuned
like
a
harpsichord
to
minute
but
signicant
dierences
in
color
deni=on,
lm
speed,
and
exposure
la=tude.
The
nega=ve
manufacturing
plant
in
New
Bedford
was
one
of
the
major
miracles
of
the
SX-70
project
Peter
C.
Wensberg,
Lands
Polaroid,
Houghton
Miin,
1987
The
rst
large-scale
nega.ve
coa.ng
runs
in
New
Bedford
were
made
in
the
mid-1970s
at
a
coa.ng
speed
of
100
linear
feet
per
minute
and
con.nued
for
up
to
12
hours,
producing
360,000
sq.
V.
of
lm
nega.ve
and
all
in
the
dark.
By
1980,
several
dierent
color
lm
nega.ves
were
being
produced
typically
at
a
coa.ng
speed
of
300
linear
feet
per
minute
for
up
to
60
hours,
with
a
yield
of
up
to
5,400,000
sq.
V.
of
lm
nega.ve
and
s.ll
in
the
dark.
I
joined
Polaroid
in
June
1974,
as
General
Supervisor
of
the
Analy.cal
Labs,
the
primary
chemistry-
focused
quality
control
component
of
lm
nega.ve
manufacturing
in
the
recently
completed
New
Bedford
lm
manufacturing
plant.
In
the
course
of
my
13
years
at
Polaroid
I
moved
to
leading
new
lm
system
development
and
then
managing
lm
nega.ve
QA/QC,
but
those
rst
years
in
New
Bedford
were
at
the
heart
of
Polaroid.
Please
join
me
as
I
describe
the
structure
of
typical
Polaroid
color
nega.ves,
the
techniques
used
to
monitor
manufacturing
and
chemical
quality
control
of
these
materials
and
some
of
the
anecdotes
that
made
Polaroid
Film
produc.on
in
New
Bedford
unique
in
so
many
ways.
Michael Filosa- The Evolu?on of Color Chemistry at Polaroid and ZINK Imaging - Edwin Lands
Legacy
Today
Star.ng
in
1979,
in
the
building
complex
adjacent
to
Edwin
Lands
Laboratory,
I
began
applying
my
training
as
a
synthe.c
organic
chemist
improving
Polaroids
color
lm
products
and
working
on
novel
imaging
systems.
Later,
as
a
part
of
a
team
led
by
Stephen
Telfer
and
Stephen
Herchen,
we
invented
a
novel,
direct
thermal,
full
color,
instant
imaging
system.
This
direct
thermal
imaging
system
led
to
the
spinout
of
ZINK
Imaging
from
Polaroid
in
2005.
ZINK
Imaging
and
the
Impossible
Project
are
the
con.nua.on,
today,
of
Edwin
Lands
legacy
in
instant
photography.