[W&B] Help with Foreign Patents: Le Cinquante Plaques

[SBShohet at aol.com]

Hello, Rob:
 
First you are right about the name; it translates as "The Fifty Plates".

Second, yes, I know of the article in Nature, which many cite as central.   
Unfortunately, all I had was an almost illegible jpg scan which Alain Martinot 
sent me.   When I open your citation It's much better in terms of legibility, 
but I can't seem to get the whole page on my computer -- only the left side of 
the illustration shows up.   Clearly the right hand of the page is missing 
and, I think, a preceding page* with the beginning of the article is missing. 
Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong, or are there other page citations I should 
use.   This would be a great help (and if you can get it for me I promise to 
do a translation for you!)

As you can see if you are able to get the complete illustration on your 
computer, the camera is a marvelous Rube Goldberg solution to getting 50 shots 
crammed into a comparatively small box (and also an imaginative -- though futile 
-- answer to Mr. Eastman's new-fangled roll film.)   Great fun, and good 
therapy for me as I try to recover from less than perfect cataract surgery.

All the best, Steve

* This is not the second page citation you sent me 

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