Kodak camera, serial #6 Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company, Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1887. George Eastman ordered six sample cameras from Brownell Manufacturing in November 1887 for testing purposes.

In 1888, George Eastman patented the original box camera and trademarked a brand that would revolutionize the field of photography. The Kodak No. 1 was one of the first mass market-focused cameras ...

Just over 125 years ago, George Eastman patented the very first of the Kodak cameras, the Kodak Box.Soon after, a slightly improved version called the Kodak No. 1 was released, and it brought ...

Eastman Kodak Company founder George Eastman (left) stands with a roll of film in the 1920s beside Thomas Edison, who was granted a patent for the motion picture camera or “Kinetograph” in 1891.

Yesterday, Kodak exited bankruptcy, and the world of consumer products, in order to protect what remains of the once megalithic company.It seems a sad coincidence that exactly 125 years ago, George ...

The camera sold for $25 (about $760 in 2022 currency). Only a press of a button was required to take a photo, and the camera could take 100. After all the exposures were done, the entire Kodak camera ...

In 1890, two years after he founded the Eastman Kodak Co., George Eastman realized he needed some clerical help. “No longer was there time enough at night … to answer all the letters that came ...

George Eastman takes pictures with his Kodak camera. Photo: Corbis 1888: George Eastman receives a patent for the first roll-film camera and registers the name "Kodak." Eastman became interested ...

It’s interesting to speculate what George Eastman, Kodak’s founder and one of the foremost entrepreneurs and inventors in industrial history, would make of this. He would certainly see the ...