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Invention of the Kodak CameraThe invention of the Kodak camera is considered a breakthrough as the birth of snapshot Photography. Before this camera there weren't other and better options for portable cameras.
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George Eastman invented the first film roll in 1884, and the Kodak camera in 1888. The former company name was "Eastman Kodak Company".

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George Eastman invented the first film roll in 1884, and the Kodak camera in 1888. The former company name was "Eastman Kodak Company".
George Eastman was an amateur photographer at the close of the 19th Century who became frustrated with the "wet plate" process of the time that required a photographer to lug liquid chemicals, glass plates, monster cameras and what were called "dark slides" (light tight plate holders) plus a portable dark tent out into the field to take photographs, which had to be exposed and developed while still wet. He first invented the Eastman Dry Plate (glass) that did away with having to haul the chemicals and a dark tent into the field, then went on to invent roll film and began marketing the Kodak amateur hand held camera with the slogan, "You Push The Button, We Do The Rest." Kodak revolutionized photography and made it popular because with a Kodak, anyone could take a picture. Curiously, the name Kodak doesn't actually mean anything. Eastman used it because it was a name like no other, and it has become one of the most distinctive brands in history. In 1992, Eastman Kodak proudly celebrated its 100th anniversary.

As a retired professional photographer, I'm a little saddened by the loss of many great Kodak films, papers and chemicals that used to be a mainstay of my livelihood, but Kodak has moved on, as have I, into the digital age, and, frankly, neither of us is looking back.

Below are two web links to further information about Eastman and the Kodak name, and of course, there's always the public library.
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George Eastman, the Creator of Memories

George Eastman's invention of the roll film, dry plate, and the hand-held camera impacted the world immensely, and helps the world by making photography more accessible to people, and more economical. He had handicapped siblings. When George was 8 his father died, this affected him because he had to get a job soon and get money for his family. He began his business career as a 14 year old office boy in an insurance company and followed that with work as a clerk in a local bank. (His mother died when he was 53 years old.)

In 1879 he got permission by the government to sell his invention, which was a machine that coats dry plates with chemicals. A dry plate is a glass photographic plate coated with a sensitive emulsion of silver bromide and silver iodide in Gelatin. In 1881 Eastman Dry Plate Company started. The chemicals on the dry plates reacted to sunlight, and that is how pictures are made.

George Eastman wanted to simplify photography and make it available to everyone, not just trained photographers. In 1883, Eastman announced the invention of photographic film in rolls. This company also manufactured the flexible transparent film, devised by Eastman in 1889, which proved vital to the subsequent development of the motion picture industry. The roll-film Kodak became an international sensation almost overnight. The film was a lot lighter than the dry plates were.

In 1888, George developed a simple hand-held camera that used his rolled film and could be marked to the general public. Kodak, the company, was born in 1888 when the first Kodak camera entered the market. Pre-loaded with enough film for 100 exposures, the Kodak camera could easily be carried and hand-held during its use. After the film was used up, the whole camera was returned to the customer. On September 4, 1888, George registered the "Kodak" trademark for his new camera company with the US government. He also came up with the company's slogan of " You press the button, we do the rest."

The invention of the dry plate, roll film, and hand-held camera impacted the world, because photography was the perfect solution to art in the time of the enlightenment; scientific, reason able without unnecessary flourishes. However the invention of photography changed the value of art - it could no longer be stated that art made after the invention of photography was only valuable as a snapshot of that time period; for that was the job of the camera. Photography is now more accessible to more people.On March 14, 1932, Eastman invited some friends to witness a change of his will. After some joking and warm conversation, he asked them to leave so that he could write a note. Moments later, he shot himself once in the heart with an automatic pistol. The note found by the household staff read simply: "To my friends, my work is done--, why wait?" When his casket was carried out of the Eastman House, the accompanying music was *Marche Romaine*.

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Eastman developed the breakthrough from "plate" photography to roll film - and then invented a camera to use it. The next phase of his company's development was making the camera ever smaller and more compact. He became hugely succesful, and the last part of his life was devoted mostly to philanthropic endeavors.

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The first Kodak was made by Frank Brownell for George Eastman's Eastman Dry Plate and Film Co. in 1888 in Rochester, New York.

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so other could use it

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hey thingy

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