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5 days ago · The inventions invented by each historic American inventor are displayed next to the inventors name when available. These brilliant inventors from United States can also be sorted by various bits of information, such as what year and where the inventor was born. Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein are included on this list along with many more.
2 days ago · Louis Daguerre (born November 18, 1787, Cormeilles, near Paris, France—died July 10, 1851, Bry-sur-Marne) was a French painter and physicist who invented the first practical process of photography, known as the daguerreotype. Though the first permanent photograph from nature was made in 1826/27 by Nicéphore Niépce of France, it was of poor ...
3 days ago · George Eastman revolutionized photography with the introduction of the Kodak camera in 1888. The Kodak was the first camera designed for roll film, making photography accessible to the general public. The slogan “You press the button, we do the rest” highlighted its simplicity.
3 days ago · (Photo Alcatel-Lucent/Bell Labs)The charge-coupled-device (CCD) was invented at AT&T Bell Labs by nobel prize winners George E. Smith and Willard Sterling Boyle on October 18, 1969. The story behind the invention is that Jack Morton , VP of Bell Labs Electronics Technology , was a strong proponent of magnetic bubble memory and he wanted to speed up the development of said memory as he saw ...
5 days ago · Noted entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist George Eastman of the Eastman-Kodak Company gave a lot to the world before he passed. His experiments with 35mm roll film helped popularize photography in the late 1800s and led to the invention of motion pictures. He was also responsible for perfecting the first Kodak camera.
3 days ago · American inventor George Eastman, who had first manufactured photographic dry plates in 1878, provided a more stable type of celluloid film with his concurrent developments in 1888 of sensitized paper roll photographic film (instead of glass plates) and a convenient "Kodak" small box camera that used the roll film.
