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Apr 12, 1996 · George Eastman: A Biography. Elizabeth Brayer. 4.00. 55 ratings9 reviews. Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography.
Apr 12, 1996 · George Eastman: A Biography. Hardcover – April 12, 1996. This life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. As a 23-year-old bank clerk, Eastman bought his first camera and began simplifying the cumbersome and messy wet-plate process.
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Sep 1, 2006 · Most comprehensive published biography on George Eastman, with an excellent index and footnotes. The author's access to primary sources makes this an essential reference for anyone researching Eastman, photography, business history, or the history of technology.
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- Elizabeth Brayer
- Elizabeth Brayer
- Who Was George Eastman?
- Early Life and Education
- Inventions
- Kodak Photography
- The Brownie Camera
- Philanthropist
- Death and Legacy
In 1880, George Eastman opened the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company. His first camera, the Kodak, was sold in 1888 and consisted of a box camera with 100 exposures. Later he offered the first Brownie camera, which was intended for children. By 1927, Eastman Kodak was the largest U.S. company in the industry. Eastman committed suicide in 1932.
Named after his father George Washington Eastman, George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854, in Waterville, New York. George Sr. had started a small business school, Eastman Commercial College, in Rochester, where he moved the family in 1860. But he died suddenly when Eastman was eight. One of young Eastman's two older sisters was wheelchair-bound f...
When Eastman was 24, he planned to visit Santo Domingo and, on the advice of a colleague, decided to document the trip. But the photography equipment alone was enormous, heavy and costly. He bought all the equipment, but he never took the trip. Instead he began researching how to make photography less cumbersome and easier for the average person to...
He resigned from his bank job after launching his fledgling photography company in April 1880. In 1885, he headed to the patent office with a roll-holder device that he and camera inventor William Hall Walker had developed. This allowed cameras to be smaller and cheaper. Eastman also came up with the name Kodak, because he believed products should ...
The Brownie camera was launched in 1900 to target new hobbyist photographers — children — and with its $1 price tag, it also became a favorite of servicemen. Eastman supported the military in other ways as well, developing unbreakable glass lenses for gas masks and a special camera for taking pictures from planes during World War I. In all, Eastman...
Although his company was essentially a monopoly for many years, Eastman was not the average corporate industrialist. He was one of the first American industrialists to embrace and implement the concept of employee profit sharing in the United States, and, in addition, he made an outright gift from his own money to each of his workers. In 1919, he a...
An avid cyclist, Eastman noticed a progressive immobility, the result of a degenerative condition that involved a hardening of the cells in the lower spinal cord. He also suffered from severe diabetes. So on March 14, 1932, at age 77, he took his own life with a single gunshot to the heart. A note he left said, "My work is done. Why wait?" He never...
Apr 10, 2015 · George Eastman : a biography. by. Brayer, Elizabeth. Publication date. 1995. Topics. Eastman, George, 1854-1932. Publisher. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press.
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream.
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George Eastman: A Biography. Elizabeth Brayer. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996 - Industrialists - 637 pages. This life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man...
