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May 7: On This Day in World History … briefly
Eastman is the only person represented by two stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame recognising the same achievement, for his invention of roll film.
1888: New camera takes the world by storm
Ex-bank clerk George Eastman (34) put a new kind of camera on the American market on this day with the sales pitch:-
“You press the button, we do the rest.”
Eastman’s Kodak camera was a simple black box with a viewer, a lens, a lever for the film – and the button.
It was sold preloaded with enough of Eastman’s new fast, flexible film for 100 films.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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