Introduction
George Eastman was a American inventor entrepreneur and a philanthropist he’s remembered for his invention of film role he was the founder of Eastman Kodak company .
Biography
George Eastman was born in July 12,1854 in Waterville New York. At the age 8 years, he started attending private school in Rochester. After his father’s death in 1862, Eastman’s family conditions became poor and he left his studies to earn money.
Did you know?
“You press the button, we do the rest” was the advertising slogan for Eastman’s Kodak Camera.
George Eastman founded the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York in the year 1892. This company mass produced good quality photography equipments as well as the film roll invented by Eastman. It was the first of its kind photography company. The Kodak camera came with the pre-loaded film roll with 100 exposures. A person could use the camera and after finishing his role, could hand it back to the company. The company then removed the film roll, developed the photographs and inserted a new film roll before handing back the camera. Eastman’s commercial, transparent film roll formed the basis of Thomas Edison’s motion picture camera.
Apart from photographic revolution, Eastman is also fondly remembered for his charitable work. He donated money for the building of educational and health institutes. He donated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and also contributed for the establishment of the Eastman School of Music in 1918 and a school of medicine and dentistry in 1921 at the University of Rochester. George Eastman died of gunshot on March 14, 1932.
George Eastman facts
1. George Eastman was the first person to make the handheld Kodak camera.
2. George Eastman’s life in photography spans the half-century from 1880 to 1930, when science, technology and culture converged to create “new products” of all sorts.
3. Eastman had built a “Method and Apparatus for Coating Plates” which made dry film a reality.
4. In his final two years, Eastman was in intense pain, caused by a degenerative disorder affecting his spine.
