George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854 at Waterville, near New York, United States. He was born of poor families. When he was still very young, he must take responsibility for his family. He initially worked as a courier in an insurance company, then became employee records. As she worked, Eastman study accounting at night. At the age of 24, he was hired as a junior employee at a bank.
One day, when they want to travel to Santo Domingo, the Caribbean, in order to leave, he was advised by colleagues to document his journey through photos. In those days, photography equipment is very difficult to transport due to large size. Since then, Eastman began to like photography.
His fondness for photography makes Eastman constantly experimenting with emulsions in the laboratory is none other than his mother's kitchen. He then found a recipe for photographic emulsion dry plates are immediately patented by him in 1880, with a savings fund and the purchase of a patent by a photography company in the UK. Eastman began producing and selling dry photographic plate in a rented loft space.
Eastman George ambition to popularize photography began to bear fruit when he discovered and perfected the film and trying to make a simple camera. In June 1888, comes the new word "Kodak" for a lightweight camera. The name comes out of nowhere. Many people ask, where did that word come from? "I made up his own name. I am very happy with the letter 'K', sounding steady and firm. Then I tried various combinations of letters that generate words beginning with the letter and the end of a 'K', "said Eastman, The History Of Camera began.
The name was later proved to be popular, even become a generic word for the camera. After the invention of Kodak, much more progress in the field of photography pioneered by Eastman. In essence, he has made photography become so simple and easy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
