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- George Eastman
- George Eastman (Q189147)
- George Eastman Museum, "About George Eastman" -- his former home, now the institutional museum/archive holding his biographical records; account of the self-taught photographic-chemistry period (age 23, three years of gelatin-emulsion experimentation in his mother's kitchen), the 1881 partnership with Henry Strong forming the Eastman Dry Plate Company, its restructurings through to Eastman Kodak Company (1892), and over $100 million in lifetime philanthropic giving. Fetched and read directly.
- Kodak, "George Eastman" company-history page -- Kodak's own institutional account, with specific dated detail: nightly kitchen chemistry experiments while working days at Rochester Savings Bank (including sleeping 'on a blanket on the floor beside the kitchen stove'), the dry-plate formula/machine patented by 1880, the April 1880 State Street lease and Henry Strong partnership, the 1888 Kodak Camera and 'you press the button, we do the rest' slogan, the 1897 Trafalgar Square electric sign, the 1899 Wage Dividend profit-sharing program, and the 1919 gift of one-third of his personal stock holdings (~$10 million) to employees. Fetched and read directly.
- International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum, Hall of Fame inductee page for George Eastman -- independent institutional account of the dry-plate technology and its chemistry, the 1888 Kodak camera marketing slogan, Eastman's own account of coining the 'Kodak' name (tested letter combinations starting and ending in 'K'), and a summary list of employee-welfare policies (wage-dividend/stock programs, insurance, disability benefits). Fetched and read directly.
- PBS, American Experience, "George Eastman" -- independent documentary/press account with specific, sometimes unflattering behavioral detail: his rigid personal-itinerary planning for travel companions ('down to the courses of their meals'), the 1925 African safari's 200 pre-numbered equipment boxes, his demand that buildings he funded use minimal ornament to cut cost, his early crude teakettle-and-glass-rod plate-coating method and the custom machine he commissioned in response, and the Goodwin flexible-film patent ultimately being awarded posthumously to its original claimant rather than to Eastman. Fetched and read directly. Health- and bereavement-related material in this source (his 1932 death, references to earlier family deaths) is NOT used to infer any personality trait in this profile -- see provenance.
- National Science and Media Museum (UK), blog, "C is for... Celluloid: The Goodwin vs. Kodak patent battle over flexible film" -- independent UK institutional/museum account with a precise dated timeline: Hannibal Goodwin's 1887 flexible-celluloid-film patent filing, Eastman and chemist Henry Reichenbach's competing 1888-89 filing, Eastman's 1889 market launch and a directly-quoted letter ('I would not trade it for the telephone'), Goodwin's patent finally granted in 1898, the August 1913 federal court ruling against Kodak, and the 1914 five-million-dollar payment. Fetched and read directly.
- Philanthropy Roundtable, Hall of Fame / Almanac entry on George Eastman -- independent press account describing his hands-on personal approach to philanthropy: rather than delegating to professional staff, 'he did it himself, with very personal attention. He researched carefully, often acted without being asked, and made all of his own decisions.' The live page returned repeated HTTP 403 responses on direct-fetch attempts (three tries, two different URLs on the same domain); read via search-engine result excerpts that reproduce this specific quoted text, not the full page. Used only to corroborate a documented control/self-direction pattern already independently attested by PBS, not as the sole basis for any row.