GEORGE EASTMAN
George Eastman--1893 George Eastman was a very inventive man who contributed greatly to the field of photography. ... In 1884 he hired William Walker, a camera inventor and manufacturer, and together they designed Eastman-Walker Roll Holder, which allowed advancing paper film through a camera rather than handling individual plates. After being very successful in the 1890s the Eastman Company fell on hard times with the departure of Reichenbach and a national financial depression, but it had recovered by 1990, the year that the company was introduced to the Brownie camera.