Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Influenced by the need of a simpler and less expensive method of taking posture pictures, Norman W. Fradd, Director of the Hemenway Gymnasium, and M. C. Reed of the Eastman Kodak Company, in 1925, perfected a means by which satisfactory silhouettes were produced. A camera man was obtained from the Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc., and the resulting machine was the silhouetteograph...
...Eastman Kodak Company took over the manufacture of the machines and at the present day the silhouetteograph is used in many colleges and schools throughout the country. The equipment used in the taking and developing of the silhouettes consists of a camera, sensitized bromide paper, developer, fixing-bath, and a linen frame. The expense of operating the silhouetteograph, not including the cost of lighting, amounts to about a half a cent for an exposure...