George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854 in Waterville, near New York, United States. He was born to a poor family. When he was very young, she must share responsibility to support the family. He initially worked as a courier in an insurance company, and then became an employee file. While working, Eastman study accounting at night. At age 24, he was hired as a junior employee in a bank.
One day, when they want to travel to Santo Domingo, the Caribbean, in order to leave, he was advised by colleagues to document his journey through photos. In those days, photography equipment is very difficult to transport due to large size. Since then, Eastman began to love the world of photography.
His love of photography made Eastman constantly experimenting with emulsions in the laboratory is none other than his mother's kitchen. He then found a recipe for a photographic emulsion dry plates were immediately patented by him in 1880, with savings accounts and purchase patent rights by a photography company in the UK. Eastman began producing dry photographic plate and sell it in a rented loft space.
Eastman ambition to popularize photography began to bear fruit when he discovered and perfected a movie and trying to make a simple camera. In June 1888, came a new word "Kodak" to a lightweight camera. The name comes out of nowhere. Many people ask, where did that word come from? "I made up the name himself. I am very pleased with the letter 'K', sounded steady and firm. Then I tried a variety of combinations of letters that produce letter word beginning and ending with a 'K', "said Eastman.
The name was later proved to be famous, even become a generic word for the camera. After the invention of Kodak, much more progress in the field of photography pioneered by Eastman. In essence, he has made photography a simple and easy manner. Eastman died on March 14, 1932.
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