We cannot talk about and not talk and George Eastman and Kodak. Eastmen began working at 14-year old as an office boy in insurance company and followed that with working as a clerk in a local bank. At the age of 24, took a vacation to Santo Domingo a co-worker suggested he make a record of the trip. Eastman bought a photographic outfit; he described the outfit as "was a pack-horse load". He never went on the trip but what he did do was become completely obsessed with photography and making the process simpler.Eastmen read in British magazines about photographers making their own gelatin emulsions. So he began working in the bank during the day and experimenting making gelatin emulsions in his mother’s kitchen at night. By 1880 Eastmen had invented a dry plate formula; he had also patented a machine for preparing a large numbers of the plates. In April 1880, Eastman leased the third floor of a building on State Street in Rochester. He then began to manufacture dry plates for sale.
Eastmen also said "The idea gradually dawned on me," he later said, "that what we were doing was not merely making dry plates, but that we were starting out to make photography an everyday affair." Or as he described it more succinctly "to make the camera as convenient as the pencil." In 1884, Eastman patented the first film in roll form to prove practicable and 4 years later in 1888 he designed the first camera specifically for roll film. In 1888 Eastmen registered Kodak as a trademark and coined the phrase "You Press The Button and We Do The Rest." Then in 1892 official established the Eastman Kodak Company.
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