Where did the term Kodak originate?

Answer 1

That is the only known name available.

Answer 2

The term Kodak was created by George Eastman and his mother. George Eastman is the creator the Kodak camera. He chose the name because it was short, easily pronounced, and didn't resemble any other names of products at the time.

Answer 3

George Eastman created the name Kodak. he came up with it by he thought that the K was a very powerful letter. Also where he grew up was nicknamed "Nodak." so he change the N for a K and that is how the Kodak name was created.

Answer 4

Kodak is the brand name for a camera. The word was arbitrarily coined by it's inventor, American George Eastman (1854 - 1932), for the purpose of obtaining the US TradeMark (registered September 4th, 1888). Before the century could turn, the name was synonymous with the word camera.

1908 brought the first usage of the term Kodak freak, meaning camera buff.

1915 saw the name Kodachrome as a registered TradeMark for Mr. Eastman's method of color Photography.

1922 brought about the coining of the word Muzak, a blending of music and Kodak by General George Squier, who developed a system for background music to be played in workplaces.

Answer 5

it came from the planet earth