Editing George Eastman (section)

=== Founding of Kodak ===
[[File:Kodak ad 1888.GIF|thumb|right|An advertisement from 1888 of the first [[Kodak]] camera]]
While working as a bank clerk in the 1870s, Eastman became interested in photography. After receiving lessons from George Monroe and [[George B. Selden|George Selden]], he developed a machine for coating [[dry plate]]s in 1879.<ref>Brayer, Elizabeth (1996). pp. 27–29</ref> In 1881, he founded the Eastman Dry Plate Company with [[Henry Strong (Kodak)|Henry Strong]] to sell plates, with Strong as company president and Eastman as treasurer, where he handled most executive functions.<ref>Brayer, Elizabeth (1996). p. 37</ref> Around the same time, he began experiments to create a flexible film roll that could replace plates altogether. In 1885, he received a patent for a film roll, and then focused on creating a camera to use the rolls.<ref>Brayer, Elizabeth (1996). pp. 43–44</ref> In 1888, he patented and released the [[Kodak]] camera ("Kodak" being a word Eastman created).<ref>Brayer, Elizabeth (1996). p. 63</ref> It was sold loaded with enough roll film for 100 exposures. When all the exposures had been made, the photographer mailed the camera back to the Eastman company in Rochester, along with $10. The company would process the film, make a print of each exposure, load another roll of film into the camera, and send the camera and the prints to the photographer.<ref name=":2">Collins, Douglas (1990). pp. 56–60</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Smith |first=Fred R. |title=You press the button...we do the rest |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1959/11/16/you-press-the-buttonwe-do-the-rest |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200513093615/https://vault.si.com/vault/1959/11/16/you-press-the-buttonwe-do-the-rest |archive-date=May 13, 2020 |access-date=April 2, 2020 |website=Sports Illustrated Vault {{!}} SI.com |language=en-us}}</ref>

The separation of photo-taking from the difficult process of film development was novel and made photography more accessible to amateurs than ever before, and the camera was immediately popular with the public. By August 1888, Eastman was struggling to meet orders, and he and his employees soon had several other cameras in development.<ref>Brayer, Elizabeth (1996). p. 66</ref> The rapidly-growing Eastman Dry Plate Company was reorganized as the Eastman Company In 1889,<ref name="aipcinema.com2">{{Cite web |title=Kodak Film History {{!}} Chronology of Motion Picture Films – 1889 to 1939 |url=http://www.aipcinema.com/ficheiros/Conteudos/KODAK_FILM_HISTORY.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515033307/http://www.aipcinema.com/ficheiros/Conteudos/KODAK_FILM_HISTORY.pdf |archive-date=May 15, 2013 |access-date=December 7, 2018 |website=aipcinema.com}}</ref> and then incorporated as Eastman Kodak in 1892.<ref name="Brayer, Elizabeth 1996 pp. 89">Brayer, Elizabeth (1996). pp. 89–91</ref><ref name="Gale2">"George Eastman." ''Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History''. Edited by Thomas Carson and Mary Bonk. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 1999. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, January 26, 2018.</ref>