The Second Industrial Revolution: The Kodak Camera

The Second Industrial Revolution, signifies a thought-provoking evolution of change in America. In 1887, an entrepreneur, and inventor from New Yorker, by the name of George Eastman, came up with the slogan, “You press the button, we do the rest.” This slogan distinguishes one of the best discoveries during this time. George Eastman invented a single box with a single shutter speed and fixed focus lens. It was a wooden, light-tight box with a simple lens and shutter that was filled with film. For years, in order for the people to capture life events and their surroundings, they had to paint, etch or draw a portrait. As some other inventors had invented their own version of a camera, George Eastman invention, is one invention that changed the chorus
The Kodak Camera was invented by George Eastman.
At the age of twenty-four, George Eastman was on a trip to Santo Domingo, when he realized the cost of the camera. So, he decided to do his private research on how to make taking pictures cost efficient and weightless, and easier for other people. In 1885, Eastman started out with using industrial paper film before converting to celluloid. After searching for several days, George Eastman got what he was searching for. He started by publicizing dry vivid plates as he was certain that products should have their own identity, free from association with anything else. Due to the strength of the letter K, Eastman felt that Kodak was a word that could be uttered easily in every language. It was in 1888, when the enchanted bliss of photography first began. Fitting his cameras with transparent nitrocellulose film, Eastman, made one of the most important innovations in the