Biography
Kodak
Personal Endeavors & Hobbies
Community Contributions
Wet Plate & Dry Plate
100
The place of George Eastman's birth. It is located 20 miles southwest of Utica.
What is Waterville, NY.
100
George Eastman's first company produced this type of photographic material?
What is a dry plate.
100
Eastman founded this local music ensamble in 1922.
What is the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
100
The first university Eastman donated money to. It was first known as the Mechanics Institute of Rochester.
What is The Rochester Institute of Technology.
100
A thick and syrupy liquid, that is made by dissolving nitrated cotton in a mixture of alcohol and ether. Another name for the wet plate process.
What is collodian.
200
Before starting the Eastman Dry Plate Company, George Eastman worked as an office boy at an insurance firm. What other job title did he hold and for what company, prior to opening his own business?
What is a clerk at the Rochester Savings Bank
200
The original name of George Eastman's first company.
What is the Eastman Dry Plate Company.
200
Eastman's catagorized form of religion. He believed that man was fundamentally a collection of molecules.
What is an athiest.
200
The other Rochester University that Eastman founded. The Eastman Dental School is a division of this university.
What is the University of Rochester.
200
Two disadvantages of wet plates.
What are toxic chemicals and having to use the plates immediately following the application of chemicals.
300
Being a lover of music, George Eastman had what instrument installed in his mansion?
What is a pipe organ.
300
How Eastman came up with the name Kodak.
What is by arranging catchy words that incorporated the letter K using scrabble tiles.
300

Eastman was a member of this fraternity.

What is Phi Mu Alpha.

300
Eastman founded this famous music hall in Rochester which was recently restored.
What is the Eastman Theater.
300
Two advantages of wet plates.
What are speed and the ability to produce multiple images from a single negative.
400
This is how George Eastman was introduced to photography.
What is he bought a camera to document a trip to Santo Domingo.
400
The slogan used by Kodak for brownie cameras.
What is "You press the button, we'll do the rest."
400
Eastman gained a love of this hobby at an early age. His father was well known for doing this and George Jr. continued this tradition at his mansion.
What is gardening.
400
Two out of state universities that Eastman contributed money too.
What are the Tuskeegee Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
400
This was the key ingrediant to making sucessful dry plates. We use the term when refering to the emulsion.
What is gelatin.
500
George Eastman's last words.
What is "To my friends, my work here is done. Why wait?"
500
The BROWNIE camera, created in this year, started a new revolution of photographers. Photography was now an available art form for all people.
What is 1888
500
One of Eastman's most well known hobbies. He has a memento from an experience that included this hobby, hanging on his wall.
What is hunting.
500
Four benefits that Eastman provided to his workers at Kodak. These were programs that were not very popular in the manufactoring business in the late 1800's.
What are wage dividends, retirement annuity, disability insurance, and life-insurance.
500

Two positive qualities about the wet plate process.

What are speed and the extended amount of time that photographers had to develop the glass plates. The didn't need to be used immediately after applying chemicals.

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