Renewing or dying: The Kodak case

Through a combination of research, experimentation and entrepreneurship, George Eastman, born in Waterville, New York, revolutionized photography and founded one of the world’s best-known corporations. It was he who put the photography business within reach of the masses. Until then, the invention conceived by the French Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and Louis Daguerre, was a complicated chemical process that put it far from popular use. It was on Sep…