Tower

A tower is a high man-made structure.

Purposes of the large height (a tower may have multiple purposes):

• being impressive and beautiful
• saving surface area
• for the view
  • for tourism
  • for guiding: traffic control[?] tower, in particular at an airport
  • for security against coming in or getting out: a watch tower[?] at a prison, concentration camp, fortress[?]/castle, border/defensive wall; in some of these cases also to fire from;
  • for watching out for fire, especially in a forest: fire tower[?];
• for spreading light: light tower[?]
• for spreading sound: church tower[?] with church bells[?], minaret of a mosque
• antenna tower
• for use of the gravity: water tower[?]
• as part of a suspension bridge or cable-stayed bridge
• for supporting power and signal cables
• in a swimming pool for jumping from a height
• for fun of climbing in it, for example on a children's playground
• the tower of a high slide, for supporting it and with stairs for reaching the starting point
• to reach heaven (legendary Tower of Babel)

A tower wagon is a mobile tower for construction work, fire-fighting, rescue work, window cleaning, filming, etc.

See also:

• Eiffel Tower