DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH
Photography Leaps into the Late 19th Century: Sept. 4, 1888

Sivaranjini S
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and invented roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888 by the world's first filmmakers Eadward Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their followers Leon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers and Georges Melies