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Eastman Kodak Company

History

Eastman Kodak Company was founded in 1891 by George Eastman in Rochester, New York. For a century Kodak was the world leader in photographic film production. The company also made and marketed cameras, especially the popular easy-to-use Brownie models.

The company worked closed with Leo Baekeland on developing uses for Bakelite. Earlier, Baekeland worked on Velox Paper for Eastman. In 1915 Eastman molded side panels for a camera on a 15-minute cycle as part of an initial evaluation of molded plastics. Bakelite and other plastics would prove to be indispensable materials for the development and Eastman Kodak and photography in general.

Eastman Kodak expanded to not only make and develop film and print photographs but to manufacture the cameras that used film along with many other products. During World War I Kodak suffered from material shortages in photographic paper, optical glass, gelatin and chemicals including methanol, acetic acid and acetone. To ensure a reliable source of materials Eastman founded Eastman Chemical in 1920 in Kingsport, Tennessee as a wholly owned subsidiary to manufacture chemicals, including acetyls, necessary for Kodak's film products. In 1993 the chemical company was established as a separate corporation.

See:

“Eastman Kodak,” Wikipedia (accessed March 23, 2012)

Dates

1891-

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