Some years ago I lent my copy of the the book Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown to jazz harpist / singer / composer Deborah Henson-Conant, musing that it might interest her. It interested her, so much so that Henson-Conant wrote a five-movement orchestral work, which she then performed with the Grand Rapids Symphony. […]
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She ponders on and in a strapless evening gown
SciCurious essays a look—perhaps a deeper and more gleeful look than ever has been looked—at Charles Seim’s classic “Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown”. Seim [pictured below] is the very same Seim who is a decorated bridge designer. BONUS: The birth of “Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown” BONUS: Deborah Henson-Conant‘s five-movement orchestral work “Stress […]
“Strapless Gown” engineer to give first public talk — after 51 years
This Friday night will see a historic event. Charles Seim, author of the 1956 classic engineering report “Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown,” will give a five-minute public lecture about it. This will be the first time, ever, that he has done so. Seim’s strapless evening gown work somehow led to a subsequent career […]