Kodak used to be the biggest employer in Rochester. This is where the company's headquarters are and it was started way back in 1880. You can read more about the history of Kodak by clicking here, but there is a lot, since the company has been around for a long time.
Before digital, Kodak was the most popular camera when film that needed developing was used and just about everyone used Kodak film. Kodak film is a leader in the making of movies but digital is now being used a lot more. Avatar was an all digital movie that probably a lot of you saw.
Maybe you've also heard of kodakgallery.com where your parents can upload pictures and make photo books or calendars or order prints.
"Kodak teamed with NASA on space science and remote sensing missions for more than 40 years. When John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth, Kodak film recorded his reactions to traveling through space at 17,400 miles per hour. When Glenn returned to space more than 35 years later, he operated a modified Kodak digital camera to document the historic space shuttle mission. (1)
If you ever come to Rochester, you should visit the George Eastman House. This is a museum about photography and the actual house where the founder of Kodak lived.
Watch this interesting video of his life and Kodak's early years.
Hope everyone has a good weekend. I'm going to Cayuga Lake which is one of the Finger Lakes so I'll probably have a lot of information to tell you next week.
(1) http://www.kodak.com/global/en/corp/historyOfKodak/impacting.jhtml?pq-path=2217/2687/2691
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