George Eastman was born on July 12 ... For Eastman, the 1880s was a dynamic decade. In 1884, he hired William Hall Walker, a camera inventor and manufacturer, and together they designed the ...

George Eastman was one of the major philanthropists of his time ... Soon after, Eastman resigned from his a junior clerk position at the Rochester Savings Bank. In 1884, the Eastman Dry Plate Company ...