Berlin-based artist David Letellier pays homage to the age-old engineering trick of Catenary with Caten, a kinetic sound installation in a 14th-century cathedral in Caen, France.

A catenary is the curve describing a rope or chain hanging loosely between two supports. At first glance, it looks like a parabola. In fact, it corresponds to the graph of a function called the ...

NEARY: We've been told that the Gateway Arch in St. Louis is not even a true catenary or catenary curve. Prof. DEVLIN: No, it can't be, because it's got thickness, for one thing. And the thickness ...

In retrospect, history's march into the future looks like a smooth catenary arch towards the present. But some technologies don't make it. Sometimes, ... The Insane Hanging Bridges That Time Forgot ...

300 Hanging Wires Form A Buzzing, ... Caten, which closed last month, demonstrates the concept of the catenary arch with 300 wires hung from the mezzanine of the church’s nave.