Paul's Episcopal Church.įather: George Washington Eastman (schoolmaster, b. No religion to speak of, believing that man was fundamentally a collection of molecules. Suicide at age 77 with a self-inflicted gunshot to the heart, to avoid a battle with spinal stenosis (already painful in his case). In fading health at the age of 77, he shot himself in the head on 14 March 1932, leaving a note that read simply, "To my friends: My work is done.
As his Kodak cameras and film rolls (manufactured for use in either his own or competitors' cameras) became more and more popular and profitable, Eastman pioneered an employee dividend system that made his workers part-owners of the firm, and he gave millions of dollars to the Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Rochester, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and smaller but still generous sums to the Tuskegee Institute. One of the first brand names invented from nonsense syllables, Eastman said he called it Kodak because he was fond of the sound of the letter K.
It is said that he once lived in al-Khadr near Bethlehem, on land owned by his mother's family. In 1888 he invented the "snapshot" camera, under the name Kodak. St George was a Roman soldier during the Third Century AD, when the Emperor Diocletian was in power. "What we were doing", he later said, "was not merely making dry plates, but photography an everyday affair." George Eastman invented a dry-plate photographic system, and later the system of film on rolls of gelatin-coated paper, which effectively superceded the previous system of chemicals, glass tanks, and heavy plate holders that kept photography out of the reach of all but professionals and the most dedicated hobbyists. Remains: Buried, Kodak Park, Rochester, NYĮxecutive summary: Inventor of the Kodak camera
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