INVENTOR

George Eastman

1854 - 1932

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George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll film camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the first time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Eastman has received more than 1,692,849 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). George Eastman is the 73rd most popular inventor (down from 69th in 2019), the 794th most popular biography from United States (down from 735th in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Inventor.

George Eastman is most famous for his invention of the Kodak camera.

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  • 60

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  • 6.38

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  • 4.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, George Eastman ranks 73 out of 426. Before him are John Deere, Jacques Piccard, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Oleg Antonov, Josephine Cochrane, and Les Paul. After him are Claude Chappe, Charles K. Kao, Kōnosuke Matsushita, Jacques de Vaucanson, Alois Senefelder, and Ray Tomlinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1854, George Eastman ranks 14. Before him are Karl Kautsky, Henri La Fontaine, James George Frazer, Paul Sabatier, Milan I of Serbia, and Georges Picquart. After him are Albert Edelfelt, Johannes Rydberg, Engelbert Humperdinck, Paul Natorp, Léo Taxil, and Paul von Rennenkampf. Among people deceased in 1932, George Eastman ranks 12. Before him are Aristide Briand, Paul Doumer, Gustav Meyrink, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Alberto Santos-Dumont, and Errico Malatesta. After him are Ronald Ross, Max Wolf, Frederick Augustus III of Saxony, Joseph Babinski, Edgar Wallace, and Margaret Brown.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Eastman ranks 794 out of 20,380. Before him are Mark Hamill (1951), Marvin Gaye (1939), Bill Russell (1934), Douglass North (1920), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), and William Alfred Fowler (1911). After him are John Goodman (1952), William Saroyan (1908), Leo Frank (1884), Frances McDormand (1957), Harold Lasswell (1902), and James Cronin (1931).

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Among INVENTORS In United States

Among inventors born in United States, George Eastman ranks 21. Before him are Charles Goodyear (1800), Isaac Singer (1811), John Browning (1855), John Deere (1804), Josephine Cochrane (1839), and Les Paul (1915). After him are Ray Tomlinson (1941), Elisha Otis (1811), Leo Fender (1909), Robert Noyce (1927), Jacque Fresco (1916), and Lee de Forest (1873).

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