{"id":226,"date":"2012-05-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2012\/05\/28\/soap-films-an-analogue-computer-reprinted-in-american-scientist-centenary-edition\/"},"modified":"2012-05-28T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T00:00:00","slug":"soap-films-an-analogue-computer-reprinted-in-american-scientist-centenary-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2012\/05\/28\/soap-films-an-analogue-computer-reprinted-in-american-scientist-centenary-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Soap Films: An Analogue Computer&#8217; reprinted in American Scientist Centenary Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The journal &#8216;American Scientist&#8217; is celebrating its centenary this month and to mark the occasion it has produced a commemorative issue in which a selection of popular articles from the past 100 years has been reprinted. Among these is a 1976 paper entitled &#8216;Soap Films: An Analogue Computer&#8217; by Cyril Isenberg, now an honorary member of staff in the School of Engineering and Digital Arts.<br \/>\nIn his paper Dr. Isenberg showed how the properties of soap films allow them to be used to solve both two-dimensional and three-dimensional distance and area problems, some of which lacked non-digital mathematical solutions at the time of the article.<br \/>\nDr. Isenberg based his article on a popular lecture-demonstration given during his visit to American universities and he still gives his soap-film demonstrations to audiences that range from school children to members of learned societies. In 2008, Queen Elizabeth II made him a member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his contributions to physics.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journal &#8216;American Scientist&#8217; is celebrating its centenary this month and to mark the occasion it has produced a commemorative issue in which a selection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2012\/05\/28\/soap-films-an-analogue-computer-reprinted-in-american-scientist-centenary-edition\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}