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The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

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Edwin Land
Age: 81 †
Born: 1909
Born: May 7
Died: 1991
Died: March 1
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Bridgeport
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Edwin Land
Edwin Herbert Land
E.H. Land
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