Kodak. On September 4, 1888, George Eastman received a patent for a roll-film camera and registered the trademark “Kodak.” The name “Kodak” came from Eastman’s fondness for the letter “K.” He found it a “strong, incisive sort of letter.” He and his mother devised the name Kodak<span> with an anagram set.</span>
Bartolomeu Dias was the first European to round the southern tip of Africa. He named it Cape of Storms, but King John later renamed it Cape of Good Hope.
