George Eastman was a man that invented Kodak and the world's first lightweight and print pictures on the go camera. Cameras before took hour to take picture and were very heavy.
Eastman would then later be recognized on his camera and would produce millions of these cameras that were also very affordable.
Motivations
George was born on July 12, 1854 in Waterville, New York. George Eastman was described as, “Eastman grew into young adulthood as a shy, short, trim, and precise kind of person. He saw himself as a businessman very early in life. He kept daily detailed accounts of his income and expenses and carefully saved his money” (George Eastman, Gale). He was not an ordinary kid that played. He instead started to learn and work early on to become something better than
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Preparations
His first camera he invented was the Kodak camera. The Kodak Camera was the first ever camera that was really light and extremely easy to use. Then he invented the Brownie Camera for celebrating his 100,000th Kodak Camera that was created. The Brownie Cameras were only a
GEORGE EASTMAN 2 dollar and really simplistic to use. The company later invented the Instamatic Camera that was fast to load and unload the film reels and it was released in 1963. It sold more than 70 million of the product. George Eastman and his company Kodak had a big role in the industrial revolution.
Although George Eastman is dead Kodak still continues. His work is respected and still admired today, “George Eastman's legacy of innovation and philanthropy is being marked at the
University of Rochester by the installation on the Eastman Quadrangle of a greater-than-life-size bronze statue created by Marc Mellon, one of the nation's foremost representational sculptors.”
(GEORGE EASTMAN, state news service). Constructing a monument means that the person is significant. George Eastman is looked up to even though his death was very long ago. George