George Eastman Part 1

George Eastman was in a struggling family, with no father, that needed support in terms of money. In order for him to do that he had to become a high school dropout in order to start working at the age of fourteen. George bought his first camera, at the age of twenty four, when a coworker of his suggested that he document his vacation to Santo Domingo. The camera included and outfit in order to carry around all of the supplies and parts needed for the camera and to later develop the photographs. He didn’t end up making his vacation but did discover his love for photography. Through this he realized what a complicated process it was to develop a picture and was then determined to make the process simpler. He started off by making gelatin emulsions which he read about in British magazines. His mother had said that George would stay up so late working on this process that he couldn’t even make it to bed some night and would fall asleep on the kitchen floor next to his working area. After three years of hard work, long nights, and endless experiments Eastman finally had figured out a formula that worked. By 1880 he had invented a dry plate formula and a machine that could prepare a large number of the plates and then had the idea that others would want to use his methods and thought to make some for sale. In the same year George started his own small business selling the plates that eventually grew into a much larger company
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