KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -George Eastman’s major historical importance was as a business entrepreneur. He built a new and rapidly growing multinational corporation that transformed the photographic industry in his time and that provided world-wide leadership for more than a century.

Detailed explanation-2: -George Eastman, (born July 12, 1854, Waterville, New York, U.S.-died March 14, 1932, Rochester, New York), American entrepreneur and inventor whose introduction of the first Kodak camera helped to promote amateur photography on a large scale.

Detailed explanation-3: -Inventor George Eastman received a patent (number 388, 850) for the camera’s shutter and the trademark (number 15, 825) for the Kodak name on September 4, 1888. The immediate triumph of the camera prompted Eastman to change the name of his company from Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company to Eastman Kodak Company in 1892.