Kodak Monographs available for download.

These are very old and out of copyright. Available for free download as PDF.

Kodak Monograph 1 - The silver bromide grain of photographic emulsions (1921)
http://www.archive.org/details/silverbromidegra00trivrich

Kodak Monograph 2 - The theory of development. (1922)
http://www.archive.org/details/theoryofdevelopm00nietrich

The photographic negative. Very old. Has many interesting chapters however.
http://www.archive.org/details/photographicnega00burbiala

(I have no affliation with the above site. It is a well known archive of copyright free materials).

Emulsion.

This is a wealth of information and knowledge! Not only those three documents, but the entire categories of Photographic chemistry and Photography! Thank you very much for shearing it!

Thank you for posting these resources.

Very interesting.

These were still being published when I joined the company in 1965, and I think that they were up to about volume 7 or 10. I have one of them here somewhere.

They also published several in-house textbooks. I have one called "Photographic Theory". There were also books on emulsion making and color product theory and design. The emulsion making book, as I remember it had over 50 pages alone on spectral sensitization and was written by Paul Gilman. He also taught that part of the course.

Every Kodak engineer had to take a very lengthy course in photographic theory and design which also included a brushup in chemistry and math along with color theory. I have quite a collection of textbooks for the courses.

I doubt if the in-house texts will ever be published.

The internal Kodak publications that I have are very lengthy and also copyright and so I cannot duplicate them here.

PE

Very cool, thanks! (I blogged this here (http://photondetector.com/blog/2007/08/19/kodak-monograph-pdfs/).)

This is the cover from a 200 page 8.5 x 11 inch textbook published internally. IDK what the distribution of these was nor how many different volumes like this were published.

Other books published were as thick or thicker with much information packed into them. With regard to some of the work published internally in these books it was rather recursive to me as they referr me to my own work much of which was not published other than in these internal texts.

Many publications from ICIS, SPSE and other photo organizations exist that were only distributed to members or registrants of meetings and some articles were never published outside of these booklets. I have several of those as well.

I really don't know what to do with them except donate them to GEH at some point in time.

PE

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

This is an SPSE publication of over 400 pages, standard textbook size. It contains 19 chapters written by the top experts in their fields from each company. So, this crosses company lines, but nevertheless it is a good tutorial for anyone that can get their hands on it. Of course it contains no confidential or proprietary information.

That is one limit that will be of importance historically.

PE

Thanks to all!

C

Great find, all three. But the third book , 'The photographic negative' from 1888, is absolutely fantastic!

Thanks for sharing these...

Steve

A commenter (http://dogbowl.us/) on my blog found another one through these:

Photographic printing methods: a practical guide to the professional and amateur worker (http://www.archive.org/details/photographicprin00burbrich), William Henry Burbank (1891)

Some more interesting items at the Internet Archive.

An old 1800's book on photo chemistry. This book has a chapter on emulsion and ripening. Available at the following site.

http://www.archive.org/details/chemistryofphoto00meldrich

An interesting film describing in some detail silver halide crystals:
http://www.archive.org/details/Alchemis1940
(there is also part 2 of this movie also available at this site).


Emulsion.

Cool, thanks!

It may be of interest to note that EK has donated George Eastman's personal notebooks and formulas to the George Eastman House. These can be seen by appointment, at GEH in their library. It would be a rare treat to see these.

PE

Interesting OLD description of how motion picture film is made.

http://www.brianpritchard.com/manufacture_of_motion_picture_fi.htm

Emulsion.