The earliest experiments in photography belong almost exclusively to Europe.

Morse, as we have seen, introduced the secret to America and interested his friend John W.Draper, who had a part in the perfection of the dry plate and who was one of the first, if not the first, to take a portrait by photography.
The world's greatest inventor in photography is, however, George Eastman, of Rochester.

It was in 1888 that Eastman introduced a new camera, which he called by the distinctive name Kodak, and with it the slogan: "You press the button, we do the rest." This first kodak was loaded with a roll of sensitized paper long enough for a hundred exposures.

Sent to the makers, the roll could itself be developed and pictures could be printed from it.

Eastman had been an amateur photographer when the fancy was both expensive and tedious.