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

[Rob McElroy]

Steve,

The two links I provided show page 403 and 404 of the magazine.  Along 
the right side your screen you should see up-and-down arrows which let 
you continue page-by-page through the book.  The page is a little wider 
than my computer screen, requiring me to scroll left and right as well 
as up and down, but it is all there.  Maybe your browser needs to be 
updated to accommodate whatever format these pages are in.  I'm not a 
computer guru, so its only a guess.  The pages look fine using Firefox 
2.0 and maybe if you just use a different browser they will display 
properly on your screen.

It looks like a fascinating camera and I would love to see jpegs of it.  
I see John Carbutt's name in the text of the article and I'm guessing 
the celluloid plates he made here in America were to be used with the 
camera.  Is that how you interpret it?

Good Luck,
Rob


SBShohet at aol.com wrote:
> 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
>