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.
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