George Eastman

xviii, 522 pp. 8vo. Black-and-white photographs, including air view of Kodak Park and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and images of several significant buildings in Rochester such as Eastman Theater. George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film in 1888 by world's first filmmaker, Louis Le Prince, and a decade later by his followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Méliès.