Timeline September 1888

Events in September 1888 2

• 1888 Munich, and the first buyers The point of the whole exercise Weeks after the Pforzheim drive, the Motorwagen is shown at the Munich Engineering Exposition and wins a gold medal. Newspapers that had ignored the machine for two years now have a story about a woman and two boys crossing Baden in one. Orders follow. Emile Roger in Paris begins selling them in France. The company Bertha funded finally has a product.
• 1888 Kodak box camera goes on sale George Eastman brings snapshot photography to the public George Eastman's Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company began selling the first Kodak camera in 1888, pre-loaded with roll film for 100 exposures. Customers mailed the entire camera back to the factory for processing under the slogan 'You press the button, we do the rest.' The Kodak trademark was registered on 4 September 1888, and the camera made photography accessible to ordinary consumers for the first time.