Excerpt from The Kodak Properties: February, 1906
You know it at Bar Harbor, at Atlantic City, in Hyde Park and on the Riviera. In its more serious uses it has penetrated the uttermost parts of the earth; and along with it has gone the fame of all the Kodak products. For a quarter of a century the Kodak Company has been turning out photographic staples. Within itself it has grown mightily; wherever it has added to its strength by the purchase of an outside concern it has been by the purchase of one which was known to the photographic world for the high standard of its products. And so it has come about. That Kodak is not only known the world over, but wherever the photographic art is practised it is known with confidence. The extent of the Kodak business to-day is not due to the work of the selling force, not to the advertising, not to the trade policy, but to the fact that in every manufacturing department the controlling idea is: Make the goods better than anyone else can make them.
In the carrying out of this idea, enormous manufacturing properties have been built and acquired in Rochester, in St. Louis, in Jamestown, in Toronto, in Harrow and in Ash tead. This book shows something of what these plants are. In addition to what thepictures tell, an appreciation of the extent of the Kodak properties may be gained when it is understood that the floor space in the buildings which it owns and occupies is approximately thirty acres.
Some idea of the thoroughness of the manufacturing end may be gained from a look into the film plant at Kodak Park just outside the City of Rochester. Kodak film has a transparent base, the principal ingredient of which is raw cotton treated with nitric acid. The principal ingredient in the sensitive emulsion with which it is coated is nitrate of silver. At Kodak Park they not only make the nitric acid with which to treat the raw cotton and render it soluble and with which to turn silver bullion into nitrate of silver, but they go back of that and make the sulphuric acid out of which (in combination with nitre) the nitric acid is made.
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