George Eastman, the cofounder of the Eastman Kodak company and designer of the camera, had already revolutionized photography with the dry plate method, simplifying photo development from a ...

Negatives at that time were made on wet plates, a sheet of glass covered ... And that led to a new kind of camera, the Kodak (1888). Mr. Eastman invented the name by fiddling with a batch of ...

By 1888, other companies were coating dry photographic emulsions on celluloid plates, but the celluloid was too thick to be used in Kodak’s roll film cameras. Eastman’s chief chemist at the time, ...

While the first Kodak camera was wildly popular with amateurs ... what was considered the state-of-the-art in the dry-plate business, Eastman returned to America and contacted George Selden ...

1880 — George Eastman begins commercial production of dry plates for photography in a rented loft of a building in Rochester, N.Y. 1888 — The name "Kodak" is born and the Kodak camera is ...

Throughout my grandfather's time working at Kodak and exploring his photographic ... These, along with the Lewis wet-plate camera also on view in the Eastman House exhibition, are held exclusively ...

In order to replace the glass plates, he first came up with a light-sensitive, gelatin-coated paper that could be rolled onto a holder. In 1888, Eastman introduced the first Kodak camera ...

Eastman started manufacturing dry plates. He then figured out how to ... In 1888 he introduced the “Kodak” camera, with the slogan “You push the button, we do the rest.” ...

The museum’s namesake, George Eastman, founded the Eastman Kodak company at ... took the photo, the plate would go into the small tank on which the camera rests for processing.

A long-standing internet claim holds that the film and camera company Eastman Kodak invented the first digital camera, but kept the invention hidden from the public because of the threat it posed ...

As reported in a 1991 Associated Press article: Eastman Kodak Co is taking its first step into filmless photography with an electronic camera system that can turn a conventional Nikon into a ...

While the first Kodak camera was wildly popular with amateurs ... what was considered the state-of-the-art in the dry-plate business, Eastman returned to America and contacted George Selden ...