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George Eastman: A Biography [Reprint ed.]
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GEORGE EASTMAN
GEORGE
EASTMAN A BIOGRAPHY Elizabeth Brayer
Hi University of
Rochester Press
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ISBN: gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the Rochester Public Library/Monroe County Library
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George Eastman
Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revealing and informative work, Brayer shows us how such key innovations as roll film and the light, hand-held camera helped the Eastman Kodak Company dominate the world market. More importantly, Brayer draws a vivid portrait of the man behind the money. Eastman worked hard at staying out of the limelight and even insisted that his donations be kept anonymous, prompting the Boston Globe to call him "America's most modest and least-known millionaire."
Despite his retirement in , Eastman showed little sign of slowing money had been interesting, but putting money to work became more so. In the s he designed a special camera for use in orthodontia and established elaborate dental clinics for needy children around the world. He oversaw the building of the Eastman theatre and the Eastman School of Music. His contributions built a ne
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George Eastman
American entrepreneur, inventor, and photographer (–)
For other uses, see George Eastman (disambiguation).
George Eastman (July 12, &#;&#; March 14, ) was an American 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.[1] Working as the treasurer and later president of Kodak, he oversaw the expansion of the company and the film industry.
Eastman was a major philanthropist, establishing the Eastman School of Music, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and schools of dentistry and medicine at the University of Rochester and Eastman Dental Hospital at University College London, and making large contributions to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the construction of several buildings at the second campus