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GEORGE EASTMAN
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)
Synonyms:
Eastman; George Eastman
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Instance hypernyms:
industrialist (someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise)
artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)