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George Eastman cont. 2
He knew that in order for his business to keep booming, he would have to keep making new improvements. His invention took a tole when he struggled to fix a problem with the chemicals in the dry plate. He had to regain business, and kept developing the camera, to keep up with people's needs. Eastman then became on of the most successful businessmen in America, all thanks to the portable camera, the Kodak. -
George Eastman
In 1855 George Eastman inventor of the Kodak camera, headed to the patent office in Rochester NY with the idea to make cameras smaller and cheaper. Camera’s were previously made with wet plates, that consisted of chemicals and were hard to use. Eastmans idea was to make dry plates with a formula he found from a British magazine. -
George Eastman cont.
Eastman recognized that cameras were too big and expensive for people. Photography was still very new, and hard to use. When his invention became successful, he claimed "At first I wanted to make photography simpler merely for my own convenience, but soon I thought of the possibilities of commercial production." After getting a patent, and starting to sell his dry plates, the demand began to grow for this innovation. -
George Westinghouse cont.
Westinghouse invented and patented a compressed-air brake system in New York, 1869 to replace the often faulty manual braking system. He made the Westinghouse Air Brake Company, the first of more than 60 companies he would form to market his and others’ inventions. People were learning new things about safety every day, he was one of those people to take action and produce a way to make railroads safer. -
George Westinghouse
George Westinghouse Jr. was born in Central Bridge, New York in 1846. He had access to his father's machinery shop, and began to love steam engines. Although his experiments were interrupted by the Civil War, which he served with the Union, he returned afterwards. His time during the war made him come to the realization of how important railroads are to the national project of industrialization. He felt that an increased safety was necessary for further development in transportation. -
Jeans
In 1872 a customer of Levi Strauss (inventor of the jeans) wrote to him in San Francisco, wanting help because he bought a cloth from Strauss and found a way to make jeans more durable. His certainty allowed for these jeans to grow quickly, making them into the most popular apparel on earth! Railroad workers needed tough clothing that was long lasting, and the Levi Jeans were exactly that. Everyone wanted the jeans, which made the demand grow higher. -
Jeans cont.
With business growing, Strauss grew the jeans into a franchise. By 1877 a report claimed that his fortune was worth more than 4 million dollars. -
Telephone
Alexander G. Bell invented the telephone in 1876 in Boston, MA because wanted to change the way words were transmitted, at the time it was Morse Code. Bell discovered that speech came in wave like patterns. He planned to produce an electrical wave that would follow the same patterns of someone's speech. A year later the Bell Telephone company was produced, however he sold lots of his stock and didn't profit as much as he could of (although the business made him incredibly wealthy!)
