Kodak
George Eastman’s company in Rochester; the Kodak camera (1888), the Brownie (1900) and Kodachrome film (1935) made photography everyone’s business.
George Eastman developed dry plates and roll film and in 1888 sold a camera with the slogan that the customer need only press the button while Kodak did the rest. The name Kodak was an invented word that could be pronounced in many languages.
The Brownie of 1900 cost one dollar and made photography a mass pastime. Walter Dorwin Teague designed cameras for Kodak in the 1930s, and the Instamatic and the Carousel slide projector became post-war best-sellers.
Kodak’s name and the model name on the camera; patent dates on early cameras.