Eastman
['i:stmən]
Definition
(noun.) United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932).
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Examples
- Draper, of the University of New York, and the Eastman Walker Company, of Rochester, were the chief promoters of dry plate photography. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The device was placed upon the market by the Eastman Company, and it was called the Kodak. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Marey first utilized the continuous film, though it was George Eastman who brought it to its present state of high perfection. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- During the experimental period and up to the early part of 1889, the kodak film was being slowly developed by the Eastman Kodak Company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In later years apparatus for utilizing the roll film has been greatly improved and extensively applied by Eastman, Walker & Co. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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