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  George Eastman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 - March 14, 1932) founded the Eastman Kodak Co. and invented roll film, which brought photography to the common man. The roll film was also the basis for the invention of the motion picture film, used by early filmmakers Thomas Edison, the Lumiere Brothers, and Georges Méliès.
Eastman was born in Waterville, New York, some 20 miles southwest of Utica, New York.
Eastman endowed the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, and chose the American composer Howard Hanson to be its first director.
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 Kodak: History of Kodak: George Eastman - the man: About his Life
Eastman's solution was to coat the paper with a layer of plain, soluble gelatin, and then with a layer of insoluble light-sensitive gelatin.
Eastman felt that the prosperity of an organization was not necessarily due to inventions and patents, but more to workers' goodwill and loyalty, which in turn were enhanced by forms of profit sharing.
Eastman lived his philosophy, "What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are." A tough competitor, hard-bitten and practical in business, he was gentle and congenial at home or in the field of outdoor enjoyment.
www.kodak.com /US/en/corp/kodakHistory/eastmanTheMan.shtml   (2425 words)

  
 Max Eastman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eastman had become a key figure in the left-leaning Greenwich Village community, and combined this with his academic experience to explore varying interests including literature, psychology and social reform.
Eastman subsequently stood trial twice under provisions of the Sedition Act, but was acquitted both times.
Eastman was also an active traveling lecturer on various literary and social topics throughout the 1930s and '40s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Max_Eastman   (618 words)

  
 George Eastman House
Eastman is heralded as the founder of Kodak and the father of popular photography and motion picture film.
The time period in which Eastman evolved, personally and professionally, is illustrated by artifacts and inventions that define the society and culture at Eastman’s birth contrasted with the innovations that evolved during his lifetime.
Eastman ’s success and fortune allowed him the privilege of conducting his philanthropy with purpose and to stamp his time and our own with the indelible mark of his worldview and values.
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 Eastman Kodak Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Eastman Kodak Company NYSE: EK is a large multinational public company producing photographic materials and equipment.
Asked about the name, George Eastman replied, "Philologically, the word Kodak is "as meaningless as a child's first 'goo'—terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face.
Eastman Kodak received a 100% rating on the first Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign in 2002.
www.somelocalcolor.com /encyclopedia/Eastman_Kodak   (1046 words)

  
 Crystal Eastman
Eastman reputation as a political campaigner grew and in 1913 she became investigating attorney for the U.S.Commission on Industrial Relations.
Eastman also joined with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns to form the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage (CUWS) and attempted to introduce the militant methods used by the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain.
In her short life Crystal Eastman brushed against many other lives, and wherever she moved she carried with her the breath of courage and a contagious belief in the coming triumph of freedom and decent human relations.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWeastman.htm   (3552 words)

  
 Rick Eastman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Eastman argues that the worker's plan should be approved unless the insurer can establish by clear and convincing evidence that the worker's plan does not have a reasonable vocational goal that will provide for reemployment and wage potential.
Eastman contends that the "clear and convincing" standard should be imposed as a penalty when the designated vocational consultant does not prepare a rehabilitation plan.
Eastman had the training to repair major appliances from his year of vo-tech training in 1981 and testified that he had done such work in the past.
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 Max Eastman
Max Eastman was born in Canadaigua in 1883.
Eastman soon developed a reputation as an outstanding journalist and in 1912 was invited to become editor of the left-wing magazine, The Masses.
Eastman, like most of the people working for The Masses, believed that the First World War had been caused by the imperialist competitive system and that the USA should remain neutral.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jeastman.htm   (2072 words)

  
 Crystal Eastman
Eastman was a prominent writer, editor, socialist and co-founder of the Congressional Union for Woman Sufferage which was the predecessor of the National Woman's Party founded in 1913.
Jane Addams found Eastman to be too direct, and who represented "impulsive radicalism and casual sex." Greenwich Village women were in favor of birth control, took lovers and got divorced which was definitely not the norm during this era.
Eastman was part of the " New Women " of Greenwich Village that believed that women needed the majority of their support from each other.
www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/ceastman.html   (846 words)

  
 The American Experience | The Wizard of Photography | People & Events | Josephine Dickman
The young George Eastman was thus raised mostly by his mother, Maria (Kilbourn) Eastman, from an early age, and entirely by her after his father died in 1862.
In the 1890s the Eastman company fell on hard times with the departure of Reichenbach and a national financial depression, but it had recovered by 1900, the year that the company introduced the Brownie camera, which sold for one dollar.
George Eastman never married, although he carried on a long platonic relationship with Josephine Dickman, a trained singer and the wife of business associate George Dickman, and he became especially close to her after the death of Maria Eastman in 1907.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eastman/peopleevents/pande02.html   (737 words)

  
 Native Authors--Charles A. Eastman, Ohiyesa
Eastman had the lifeways and historical events experiences, and he did not need the literary filters of translators and white anthropologists or collectors.
Eastman protested to his supervisor Daniel Royer the sending of the 7th Cavalry to arrest and disarm the band before it reached the agency.
Eastman had no difficulty passing the Minnesota licensing examination and received a valid license to practice medicine.
www.kstrom.net /isk/stories/authors/eastman.html   (1628 words)

  
 Eastman Kodak -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Eastman Kodak Company is a large multinational public company producing (Click link for more info and facts about photographic) photographic equipment.
The basis of Eastman Kodak was the Eastman Dry Plate Company founded by inventor (United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)) George Eastman and businessman Henry Strong in 1881.
Asked about the name, George Eastman replied, " (Click link for more info and facts about Philologically) Philologically, the word Kodak is as meaningless as a child's first 'goo'—terse, abrupt to the point of rudeness, literally bitten off by firm and unyielding consonants at both ends, it snaps like a camera shutter in your face.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ea/eastman_kodak.htm   (924 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of North American Indians - - Eastman, Charles (Ohiyesa)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Eastman went on to the preparatory school of Knox College, then to Kimball Union Academy and to Dartmouth College, from which he graduated in 1886; he graduated from the medical school of Boston College in 1889.
Eastman sought a position as an agency physician with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and was assigned to the Pine Ridge Agency in the fall of 1889.
Eastman's life was remarkable because of the transformation he made from one way of life to another.
college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/naind/html/na_010800_eastmancharl.htm   (986 words)

  
 Invent Now | Hall of Fame | Search | Inventor Profile
Eastman began his search for a transparent and flexible film in 1884.
Born in Waterville, New York, Eastman, in 1877, embarked upon the intricate tasks of preparing the necessary emulsions, coating the 'wet plates' on which most pictures were then taken, and developing the prints.
Eastman had in mind the commercial prospects of dry plates and by 1879 was ready to embark on a business career.
www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/48.html   (251 words)

  
 www.eastman.com - Markets - Pharmaceutical - Excipients - Introduction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Eastman manufactures a wide variety of functional excipients that are used to improve the efficacy of the active agent.
Eastman is the exclusive manufacturer of these products for pharmaceutical applications, used in controlled-release applications involving membrane release or matrix release.
Eastman cellulose esters are soluble in a variety of organic solvents for membrane applications.
www.eastman.com /Markets/Pharmaceutical/Excipients/Excipients_intro.asp   (345 words)

  
 Inventor of the Week: Archive
In 1877, Eastman began work in photography: his specialty was preparing and applying the complex emulsions (liquid silver-salt coatings) used at that time in developing nearly all photographic plates.
In 1885, Eastman began marketing the world's first commercial film: transparent and flexible, it could be cut into narrow strips and used while wound on a spindle.
But Eastman was also a great American philanthropist: through various programs, he had given away over $100 million by his death in 1932.
web.mit.edu /invent/iow/eastman.html   (245 words)

  
 Inventor George Eastman
Eastman, George (1854-1932), American inventor and philanthropist, who played a leading role in transforming photography from an expensive hobby of a few devotees into a relatively inexpensive and immensely popular pastime.
Eastman was associated with the company in an administrative and an executive capacity until his death and contributed much to the development of its notable research facilities.
Notable among his contributions were a gift to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and endowments for the establishment of the Eastman School of Music in 1918 and a school of medicine and dentistry in 1921 at the University of Rochester.
www.ideafinder.com /history/inventors/eastman.htm   (684 words)

  
 The Claremont Institute: John C. Eastman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Eastman publishes a periodic column entitled "First Principles" in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, and he has published numerous op-eds in newspapers around the country, including the Washington Post, the Orange County Register, and the Wall Street Journal.
Eastman also serves as an Assistant Scoutmaster in his son's Boy Scout Troop and enjoys camping, golfing, and travel with his wife and two children.
John Eastman and Timothy Sandefur analyze the constitutional role of the Senate in judicial appointments.
www.claremont.org /about/staff/eastman.html   (2451 words)

  
 Health Care to Native Americans: Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939)
Eastman received his medical degree from the Boston University School of Medicine in 1890 and began medical service for the Office of Indian Affairs later that year.
Eastman served at Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, and was an eyewitness to both events leading up to and following the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890.
Eastman continued work at various posts as reservation physician until 1903.
www.nlm.nih.gov /exhibition/if_you_knew/if_you_knew_11.html   (473 words)

  
 Amazon.com: George Eastman : A Biography: Books: Elizabeth Brayer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
George Eastman was one of the seminal figures in the development of photography.
Eastman was perhaps the first scientist-engineer entrepreneur, a model followed later by men like Edwin Land and Bill Gates.
Eastman the inventory of flexible film, made his first commercial batches by spreading the celluloid out on level 100-foot long glass topped tables.
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 George Eastman
He started the Eastman Kodak Company and is responsible for the industry that produced todays imaging technology.
Eastman's family was poor at first, but he fixed that by quitting school and working as an office boy.
George Eastman was born to Maria Kilbourn and George Washington Eastman.
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 Donna Kelly Eastman
Donna Kelly Eastman has had a varied musical career, which includes keyboard and vocal performance, choral and chamber ensemble direction, studio and classroom teaching, and writing and arranging music for many settings.
Eastman is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Women, and Who's Who in the World, and is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honorary and Phi Kappa Phi National Academic Honor Society.
Eastman is a charter member of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
www.sai-national.org /phil/composers/deastman.html   (206 words)

  
 SETH EASTMAN 1808-   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Eastman spent the rest of his career in the army, attaining the rank of colonel by the time of his retirement in 1863.
During this time, Eastman published a treatise on topographical drawing advocating that scientific attention to detail be applied to landscape art.
Eastman's view was painted from an elevated vantage point southwest of the military academy, and some of the school's academic buildings appear as tiny white shapes at the far right.
www.butlerart.com /pc_book/pages/seth.htm   (402 words)

  
 9-11 Research
A theory of the Pentagon attack by researcher Richard Eastman attempts to reconcile conclusions that a 757 did not hit the building with eyewitness accounts of such an aircraft apparently flying into it.
Eastman argues that the piece was planted, either by being dropped from the C-130, or by being moved into position by people on the ground in the minutes following the explosion, in order to bolster the government's fraudulent account.
Eastman's account of the fate of Flight 77 also implicates the government, by suggesting that most of the crew and passengers were either insiders in this deadly covert operation, or were silenced after being taken into custody.
911research.wtc7.net /pentagon/analysis/theories/eastman.html   (1742 words)

  
 Ebenezer Eastman Family History
Eastman took in the settlement of Concord; the services he rendered, and the affairs of trust and honor committed to his charge, were many.
The story as related by Jonathan Eastman, a grandson of Captain Eastman, is that as night came on the orders were that all the vessels should follow the Admiral's ship, which had a large light hoisted at masthead for a signal.
I, Ebenezer Eastman of Rumford in the Province of New Hampshire in New England, Gent.
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 Max Eastman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Follow Max Eastman, one of the  Twentieth Century's most fascinating  figures, as he crusades for labor and women's rights, narrowly escapes both prison and lynching, writes bestsellers, travels the world, combats the tyranny of Stalin, and befriends Charlie Chaplin, Ernest Hemingway, Sigmund Freud, Leon Trotsky, H.G. Wells, e.e.
In his time, Eastman shifted seamlessly from poet to journalist, philosopher to agitator, lover to fighter, radical to conservative.
Eastman and Masses colleagues twice brought to trial under the Espionage Acts.
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 BBC SPORT | Boxing | Profile: Howard Eastman
Eastman describes himself as a simple man who just tells it as it is but, likes to be different, not to follow everyone and do everything they do.
And Eastman undoubtedly rules the roost in the East London gym where he trains.
When he does, Eastman has the talent and patience to finally get his hands on the world title he so craves.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/boxing/2732295.stm   (475 words)

  
 Michael EASTMAN Faux-Naïf Painter
Michael EASTMAN: My painting tends to be accident-dominated and intuitive, probably a reflection of my roots in Abstract Expressionism where intuition and the accident were cherished.
My only epiphany was a small one: I was working on a commercial art job for IBM sitting next to a guy with a family and a mortgage when it occurred to me that I had no such obligations, and I could do whatever I wanted.
Michael EASTMAN: In RUZ the line "I think of all you might have done" is from a somewhat melancholy John Peale Bishop poem about a fellow who died young.
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 AllRefer.com - George Eastman, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
He invented a dry-plate process and established (1880) a factory at Rochester, N.Y., for making the plates; he devised a roll film and the Kodak camera (1888) to use it, as well as a process for color photography (1928).
The Eastman Kodak Company, founded in 1892, was one of the first firms in America to establish a plant for large-scale production of a standardized product and to maintain a fine chemical laboratory; its progressive welfare program included a profit-sharing plan.
Eastman's philanthropies were estimated at over $100 million: the principal recipients were the Univ. of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tuskegee and Hampton institutes, Rochester Dental Dispensary, and dental clinics in several European capitals.
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