Industrial Age · North America · Technology
1888
Kodak Launches
1888
George Eastman began selling a pre-loaded box camera with the slogan "You press the button, we do the rest." Photography, until now a chemist's craft, became a pastime. You mailed the whole camera back and got your prints and a reloaded camera returned. The snapshot - and the modern image flood - had just been invented.
In context
Also in 1888 (4 other events on record)
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Before and after in North America
- Before: February 8, 1887: Dawes Act
- After: May 31, 1889: Johnstown Flood
Before and after in Technology
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.