Information AboutGeorge Eastman |
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U.S. Stamp featuring George Eastman.]] George Eastman ( July 12 , 1854 – March 14 , 1932 ) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented Roll Film , helping to bring Photography to the mainstream. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the Motion Picture Film in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince , and a decade later by his followers Léon Bouly , Thomas Edison , the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès . BIOGRAPHY Eastman was born in Waterville , Oneida County, New York . He was the fourth and youngest child of George Washington Eastman and Maria Kilbourn, both from the bordering town of Marshall . His third sister died shortly after her birth. In 1854 , his father established the Eastman Commercial College in Rochester and the Eastman family moved to Rochester in 1860 . Two years later, his father died and Eastman left High School to support the family and began working as an office boy by the age of 14.1 In 1878, Eastman became intrigued with photography, but was frustrated by the awkward method that required coating a glass plate with a liquid emulsion that had to be used before it dried. After three years of experimentation with British Gelatin emulsions, he developed a dry photographic plate, patented it in both England and the US, and began a photographic business in 1880. In 1884, he patented a photographic medium that replaced fragile glass plates with a photo-emulsion coated on paper rolls. The invention of roll film greatly speeded up the process of recording multiple images. Kodak film patented on October 14 , 1884 camera.]] Eastman received a patent in 1888 for his roll film operetta ('' Utopia, Limited ''). The camera owner could return it with a processing fee of $10, and the company would develop the film and return 100 pictures, along with a new roll of 100 Exposures .2 |
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