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George Eastman

1854 - 1932

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George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll film camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the first time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. George Eastman is the 74th most popular inventor (down from 73rd in 2019), the 1,014th most popular biography from United States (down from 794th in 2019) and the 25th most popular American Inventor.

George Eastman is most famous for his invention of the Kodak camera.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Eastman ranks 74 out of 426. Before him are John Deere, Henry Fox Talbot, Josephine Cochrane, Les Paul, Ruth Handler, and Claude Chappe. After him are Léon Theremin, Jacques Piccard, James Naismith, John Browning, Alois Senefelder, and Rowland Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, George Eastman ranks 13. Before him are Paul Ehrlich, Henri La Fontaine, Paul Sabatier, Emil von Behring, Karl Kautsky, and James George Frazer. After him are Milan I of Serbia, Johannes Rydberg, Engelbert Humperdinck, Hertha Ayrton, Paul von Rennenkampf, and Salomon August Andrée. Among people deceased in 1932, George Eastman ranks 18. Before him are Augusta, Lady Gregory, Gustav Meyrink, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Max Wolf, and Edgar Wallace. After him are Errico Malatesta, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Joseph Babinski, Kang Pan-sok, Eugen d'Albert, and Pavlik Morozov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Eastman ranks 1,014 out of 20,380. Before him are Jean Harlow (1911), Gary Gygax (1938), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Joseph Barbera (1911), Jane Russell (1921), and Richard Barthelmess (1895). After him are Babe Ruth (1895), Bill Bixby (1934), William Hanna (1910), Dorothea Lange (1895), Lillian Gish (1893), and Hulk Hogan (1953).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, George Eastman ranks 25. Before him are Theodore Maiman (1927), Isaac Singer (1811), John Deere (1804), Josephine Cochrane (1839), Les Paul (1915), and Ruth Handler (1916). After him are John Browning (1855), Ray Tomlinson (1941), Raymond Damadian (1936), Leo Fender (1909), Elisha Otis (1811), and Walter Hunt (1796).

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