Posts Tagged ‘George Eastman’
In Search of Lost Time…

From the good folks at Dontpkethebear.com…

… “Recreating ridiculous family pictures.”

More family fun here.
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As we reassume the position, we might recall that it was on this date 1884 that George Eastman was granted U.S. Patent #306,594 for paper-strip photographic film. At a time when photography required heavy glass dry plates to reproduce images, Eastman was on a quest to “make the camera as convenient as the pencil”; this was the first of several inventions that allowed him to introduce the simple box camera, the Kodak camera, four years later.
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