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Kodak advertises to the engineering profession
That we pay well and can afford the best is too obvious to
belabor. As an inducement to practice your profession for us,
what more can we offer than money and good working conditions?
We can offer choice—both at the beginning and later
on when you have learned more about yourself. Our diversification
and pattern of organization make choice feasible.
Some engineers are strongest on theory. We are big enough
to need that kind. More engineers are intuitive gadgeteers,
despite a first-classengineering education. We need more of
that kind. To illustrate a few of the different kinds of systems
among which, for example, our mechanical engineers can
move, we show here how results of the work are presented
to the public. Accompanying comments are from the boss
engineers.
Correspondence with a view to joining us should be directed
to Eastman Kodak Company, Business and Technical
Personnel Dept., Rochester, N.Y. 14650.
An employer that needs mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineers
for Rochester, N.Y., Kingsport, Term., Longview, Tex.,
and Columbia, S.C., and offers equal opportunity to all. A policy
of promotion from within has long been maintained.
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A film emulsion coating machine
is unique. It needs considerably
more delicate adjustments
than a $250 watch, hut it's five
stories high and a block long.
There is no other place you can
take a course in how to huild
them bigger and better, but bigger
and better they are getting. 99
''The simplicity of design in our
simpler cameras only looks that way.
The engineer is balancing off the
stringent demands of light-sensitive
materials against what millions of
non-technical people the world around
can afford to pay for the idea that
good times are picture times. And
they won't tolerate disappointment any
more than do buyers of our cameras
and projectors farther up the price
range, who get fine instruments at a
lot less than instrument prices, ϊf
^Down here at Tennessee Eastman
(in Kingsport, Tennessee) we mechanical
engineers take over the
polymers that our chemical engineering
brethren deliver through
their pipes and turn them into miracle
fibers. Then we send out our
ou n mechanical engineering patrols
to where the looms and sewing machines
are working, just to make
sure the ladies don't lose their faith
in miracles.55
' ^Aerospace photography, as in our Lunar Orbiter assignment,
differs in that we push reliability to lengths that
would be wasteful and ridiculous for other photographic
systems work.//
A printing house discovers fhαf our
brand of photolithographic film cuts
their costs by requiring fewer makeovers.
Why should this be so? You
might trace it all back to a mechanical
engineer using our analog computer
for three-dimensional heat-transfer calculations
for the polyester casting
wheel that the film base came from.JJ
With today's volume of demand for medical care,
mechanical engineers had to put an end to handdipping
of x-ray film. Our idea of an m.e.'s responsibility
is big enough to cover not only mechanical
drive systems but also fluid mechanics (as in recirculation
and temperature control for corrosive photographic
solutions), air hydraulics (recirculation
and temperature control of heated air), industrial design
(styling for a medical environment), and plenty
of interfacing with the electrical circuitry people. J}