The most
distinguished musicians are glad to do their best for the
preservation and reproduction of their art, and through these
machines, good music is brought to thousands to whom it could
come in no other way.
The camera bears a large part in the diffusion of intelligence,
and the last half century in the United States has seen a great
development in photography and photoengraving. The earliest
experiments in photography belong almost exclusively to Europe.
Morse, as we have seen, introduced the secret to America and
interested his friend John W. Draper, who had a part in the
perfection of the dry plate and who was one of the first, if not
the first, to take a portrait by photography.
The world's greatest inventor in photography is, however, George
Eastman, of Rochester. It was in 1888 that Eastman introduced a
new camera, which he called by the distinctive name Kodak, and
with it the slogan: "You press the button, we do the rest." This
first kodak was loaded with a roll of sensitized paper long
enough for a hundred exposures. Sent to the makers, the roll
could itself be developed and pictures could be printed from it.
Eastman had been an amateur photographer when the fancy was both
expensive and tedious. Inventing a method of making dry plates,
he began to manufacture them in a small way as early as 1880.
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