Re: Fresson electron microscope scans

Luis Nadeau (nadeaul@nbnet.nb.ca)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:58:47 -0400

At 10:37 AM -0500 98/02/19, Art Chakalis wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, erobkin wrote:
>
>> Earlier Art Chakalis told the list that he had available some electron
>> microscope scans of an example of Fesson paper. Thanks to Art and my system
>> administrator those images are now available via ftp file transfer from my
>> college server. If you do not have ftp capability email me directly, not to
>
>
>I wanted to first thank Eugene for his help. The download site makes
>sharing this photograph practical.
>
>Some added information, Peter Fredrick was the kind donor of the original
>slide which was taken by M.I. Walker. The image is a high powered optical
>microscopic cross section of Fresson paper. The section was stained to
>enhance detail and photographed at 200:1 (200 power) to provide as much
>information as possible.
>
>Two scans were made, the first at scanner default settings which portrays
>the image as accurately as possible. For the second scan I adjusted
>color to further enhance detail in the scan.
>
>Thanks again to Eugene Robkin, Peter Fredrick and M.I. Walker.

I don't know how many dollars have been spent on this kind of
investigation, which has been going on since the year 1900 or so, but I
would gather that the total amount would be formidable. Early this century,
Autotype, Kodak and plenty of others spent a lot of effort on this. At one
point, Kodak, ca. 1920s thought of buying the Fresson process just to learn
how extremely thin layers could be coated. In recent years many research
departments of wellknown universities and institutions, as we have seen,
including Kodak again (ca. 1970s) have also spent a considerable amount of
time and energy studying the process.

Has it occured to anyone that if the same amount of money were spent on
lotery tickets, the odds of getting the mystery solved would be about 1 in
10 million, which may not seem like much, but certainly better than nothing
in 10 million?

Just trying to help...

Luis Nadeau
Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it.

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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
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