The History Of Kodak
The roots of Kodak start in the 1870s when a young 24 old was thinking about having a vacation from his job as a bank clerk. This man was George Eastman a friend asked him why he did not create photographs of his holiday. When Eastman conducted some research into photography he found that it was very difficult, you had to bring lots of equipment that was very heavy and unwieldy, many chemicals to help take and develop the photograph.
George Eastman then spent three years to create a camera that used a dry plate, made out of glass that would need less chemicals. He then pursued many patents for his many inventions, he then started to create prototypes of these in the late 1870s. Then in 1880 he started manufacture of the first Kodak camera. Within one year he had left his job at the bank, was working full time in his photography business and a businessman had joined Eastman in the company.
By the year 1884, Eastman Dry Plate and film, had been created. It was the company that had been created by Eastman and it was run by Henry Strong the businessman who had joined the company just 2 years before.
In 1888 Eastman registered the term Kodak as a trademark for his cameras, and he also sold the first small camera. It allowed the public to take their own photographs without needing to develop the photographs or need expensive and dangerous chemicals.
In the year of 1892 the company was renamed to Kodak and the company had started to sell these cameras in other countries for example in France, Italy, London and various other European countries. There was even a factory in the outskirts of London.
In 1923 a breakthrough happened, Kodak introduced the first cameras that could take videos, he also sold projectors to allow people to film videos and show them on projectors, this started the spread of cinema to the masses and really helped to create the roots of the modern day cinema.
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