EASTMAN, GEORGE American inventor, manufacturer, and philanthropist, was born at Waterville (N.Y.) on July 12, 1854. He was educated at Rochester and became in terested in photography. In 1880 he began to manufacture dry plates, and four years later produced the first practicable roll film. In 1888 he invented the "kodak." He devoted the greater part of his fortune to the advancement of education, and had given by 1925 a total of over $58,000,000 for such purposes. Of this sum the university of Rochester received over $25,000,000, including upward of $5,500,000 for the medical school and $6,5oo,000 for the foundation and endowment of the Eastman school of music. He gave also $15,500,000 to the Massachusetts institute of technology and about $2,000,000 to the Hampton and Tuskegee institutes. He died Mar. 14, 1932. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.)