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George Eastman
George Eastman was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll film camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the first time. Working as the treasurer and later president of Kodak, he ove…
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business · American entrepreneur, inventor, and photographer (1854–1932) · entrepreneur · inventor · photographer · philanthropist · patron of the arts · also George Eastman, geog. eastman, Geo. Eastman, g. eastman, Eastman
Born 12 July 1854 · Died 14 March 1932 · Q189147
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2026· 1 entry
2024· 1 entry
Rochester Institute of Technology: George Eastman Hall (EAS)
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2023· 1 entry
PBS: George Eastman
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2016· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Over 250,000 Photographs from the George Eastman Museum Go Online
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1977· 1 entry
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1977).
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1968· 1 entry
Eastman was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum
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1966· 1 entry
The George Eastman House was designated a National Historic Landmark
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1954· 1 entry
To commemorate Eastman's 100th birthday, the University of Rochester erected a meridian marker near the center of Eastman Quadrangle on the campus of the University of Rochester using a gift from Eastman's former associa
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1949· 1 entry
It re-opened after having been adapted for use as the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
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1937· 1 entry
Eastman also funded Eastmaninstitutet, a dental care clinic for children opened in 1937 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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1935· 1 entry
Kodak would release the more famous second Kodachrome, the first marketed integral tripack film
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1934· 2 entries
The George Eastman Monument at Kodak Park (now Eastman Business Park) was unveiled
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Shortly after Eastman's death, Kodak employed 23,000
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1932· 5 entries
Shot himself in the heart, leaving a note which read, "To my friends: my work is done
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Eastman killed himself with a single gunshot through the heart, leaving a note reading: "To my friends, my work is done – Why wait
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Died 1932-03-14.
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The year of Eastman's death, $100 million is equivalent to more than $2 billion in 2022
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Figured for its value in 1932, the year of Eastman's death, $100 million is equivalent to more than $2 billion in 2022.
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1931· 2 entries
The UCL Eastman Dental Institute opened in a ceremony attended by Neville Chamberlain, then Minister of Health, and the American Ambassador to the UK
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With his death and the looming tensions of World War II, this calendar was dropped from consideration
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1930· 2 entries
Won American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal (1930).
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Was awarded the American Institute of Chemists Gold Medal
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1929· 2 entries
In 1929 he founded the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at University of Oxford, to be held each year by a different American scholar of the highest distinction.
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Founded the George Eastman Visiting Professorship at University of Oxford, to be held each year by a different American scholar of the highest distinction
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1926· 1 entry
To fund a dental clinic in London after being approached by the chairman of the Royal Free Hospital, George Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell
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1925· 2 entries
Eastman invited Cotsworth to his home; he had been introduced to Cotsworth's calendar by a mutual friend and was interested in the system
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Eastman gave up his daily management of Kodak and officially retired as president
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1924· 1 entry
Eastman and the Bureau supported a referendum to change Rochester's government to a city manager system, which passed
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1922· 2 entries
Opened the Eastman Theatre in Rochester, which included a chamber-music hall, Kilbourn Theater, dedicated to his mother's memory
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Founded the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, hiring its first music director Albert Coates
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1920· 1 entry
Eastman established the Eastman Savings and Loan to provide financial services to Kodak employees
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1919· 1 entry
“Farewell Address of a Socialist”
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1918· 1 entry
Endowed the establishment of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, and in 1921, a school of medicine and dentistry there
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1915· 2 entries
Eastman provided funds for the establishment of the Eastman Dental Dispensary in Rochester
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Eastman founded the Bureau of Municipal Research in Rochester to gather information and make government policy recommendations
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1913· 1 entry
And a final judgment in 1921, ordering Kodak to stop fixing prices and sell many of its interests
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1911· 1 entry
For exclusive contracts, acquisitions of competitors, and price-fixing
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1910· 1 entry
And a profit-sharing program for all employees in 1912
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1908· 1 entry
Eastman negotiated for Kodak to be the sole supplier of film to the industry
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1907· 1 entry
He became especially close to Dickman after the death of his mother, Maria Eastman, in 1907.
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1904· 1 entry
And funded experiments in color film production for the next decade
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1889· 2 entries
And then incorporated as Eastman Kodak in 1892
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Patented the processes for the first nitrocellulose film along with chemist Henry Reichenbach
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1888· 1 entry
Patented and released the Kodak camera ("Kodak" being a word Eastman created)
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1887· 1 entry
Before Eastman and Reichenbach's, but it was not granted until 1898
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1885· 1 entry
Received a patent for a film roll and then focused on creating a camera to use the rolls
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1881· 1 entry
Founded the Eastman Dry Plate Company with Henry Strong to sell plates, with Strong as company president and Eastman as treasurer, where he handled most executive functions
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1854· 1 entry
Born 1854-07-12.
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