noun
United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)
• Syn: ↑Eastman
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑industrialist, ↑inventor, ↑discoverer, ↑artificer
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(1854–1932) the American who invented a camera small enough to carry and film in a flexible roll. He started a company in 1884 that later became the Eastman Kodak Company. His Kodak box camera was first sold in 1888 and the Brownie camera in 1900. This made photography available to many ordinary people for the first time.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.