The Chronograph of Inventions

September 4

• In 1888, George Eastman was issued a U.S. patent for his box camera. On the same date, he registered the trademark name: Kodak. This design was the first Kodak mass-produced camera, and brought photography to the mass market. As described in its advertising, the operation was simple: "Pull the String, Turn the Key, Press the Button."

  In 1906, U.S. patent was issued to Robert Eugene Turner for his invention of a "Type Writing Machine,"(typewriter) with a carriage powered by a motor to "return automatically when the end of the writing-line is reached, also to return same by pressing a key-lever on the keyboard to return the carriage at any point of its stroke."