On this day in 1884 George Eastman was granted the patent for PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM. U.S. Patent No. 306,594.
This invention relates to an improvement in photographic films having for their object the production for the market of sensitized films, which are capable of being used in making positives and negatives in place of the sheets of glass coated with emulsion, now known in the trade as “dry-plates,” and to this end this invention consists in the new article of manufacture formed by improved sensitized films, and in the process or mode of manufacture.
