In view of all the film/digital talk of late, I thought this timely.
From The Writer's Almmanac (NPR):
It's the birthday of inventor and manufacturer George Eastman <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/eastman/>, born in Waterville, New York (1854). He began to study photography in 1877 while working at a bank, and the following year, with a camera he invented, he took his first dry-plate photograph, of a view of the Charles P. Ham building across the street from his window. He went on to develop the handheld camera, and he called it the Kodak because it was easy to remember and difficult to misspell.
