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Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Kodak camera, serial #6 Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company, Rochester, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1887. George Eastman ordered six sample cameras from Brownell Manufacturing in ...

The first Kodak camera was a game-changer for the art of photography. Debuting in 1888, by modern standards the Kodak was impossibly clunky: large and boxlike, it lacked a viewfinder, offering only a ...

When Steve Sasson made the first digital camera in 1975, he never dreamed it would end up on display at the George Eastman House. "I just never thought about the significance of it, to be honest with ...

If you were alive in the 1980s, chances are good you owned a Kodak disc camera or knew someone who did. Eastman Kodak Co. sold 25 million of the ubiquitous pocket cameras, which were launched on the ...

Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the first portable, digital camera in 1975. Kodak received a patent for the device in 1978, but did not put it into production. What's False While Kodak did not ...

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