February 21, 1947 at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City Polaroid founder Edwin Land first demonstrated the instant camera.

The first Instant camera, known by the name of Land’s company, Polaroid. Within 6o seconds it could produce a black and white photo by using developer and fixer contained in sacs with the film and photographic paper in a layered packet. After the exposure was made, the packet was pulled out of the camera, which squeezed the chemicals from their sacs and began the developing process.