George Eastman and Kodak Camera

Posted by Tel Asiado Jul 12, 2008

Great Thinkers Datebook: July 12

George Eastman celebrates his birthday today, July 12 (1854-1932). He was an American inventor and manufacturer of roll-film photograph, what is famously known today as the Kodak camera.

Eastman was born in Waterville, New York. Among his inventions, he introduced machine-coated plates (1879), paper roll film (1884), celluloid roll film & the Kodak camera (1888), and daylight-loading film (1891). For all these, he actually founded the basic materials for still and motion picture photography.

In 1892, he founded the Eastan Kodak Company.