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 ...

The George Eastman Museum hidden archive features a moon orbiter, a magnesium flash bomb, and a dogfight practice rig for pilots.

Over the following years, Eastman modified the chemistry and equipment to make photography easier, so easy even a child could take photographs. The company he founded, Eastman Kodak, ultimately ...

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 ...

Of course, Eastman was often caught in camera in far-off locations as well, but in the end one fact is inescapable: one must look long and hard to find a picture of George Eastman smiling.

It’s just that its purest expression today is the camera phone, not a Kodak camera that takes Kodak film that’s processed by a Kodak lab. The dream originated in the brain of the gentleman in the ...

The Kodak brand is far from what it once was, with its name licensed for a wide range of products well beyond cameras and ...

The company’s name has become synonymous with a failure to adapt to the digital revolution. But overseas, its logo has become ...

George Eastman, the cofounder of the Eastman Kodak company and designer of the camera, had already revolutionized photography with the dry plate method, simplifying photo development from a ...

Once upon a time, photography wasn't for everyone. Cameras were big, expensive, cumbersome machines, far from average-user-friendly. Then George Eastman came along, providing smaller yet still ...

A user could take 100 shots, then mail the camera and $10 to Eastman Kodak. The company would develop the film, make prints, refill the camera, and send them all back to the photographer.