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A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures.
Towers are specifically distinguished from buildings in that they are built not to be habitable but to serve other functions using the height of the tower. For example, the height of a clock tower improves the visibility of the clock, and the height of a tower in a fortified building such as a castle increases the visibility of the surroundings for defensive purposes. Towers may also be built for observation, leisure, or telecommunication purposes. A tower can stand alone or be supported by adjacent buildings, or it may be a feature on top of a larger structure or building.
Towers have been used by humankind since prehistoric times. The oldest known may be the circular stone tower in walls of Neolithic Jericho (8000 BC). Some of the earliest towers were ziggurats, which existed in Sumerian architecture since the 4th millennium BC. The most famous ziggurats include the Sumerian Ziggurat of Ur, built in the 3rd millennium BC, and the Etemenanki, one of the most famous examples of Babylonian architecture.
Some of the earliest surviving examples are the broch structures in northern Scotland, which are conical tower houses. These and other examples from Phoenician and Roman cultures emphasised the use of a tower in fortification and sentinel roles. For example, the name of the Moroccan city of Mogador, founded in the first millennium BC, is derived from the Phoenician word for watchtower ('migdol'). The Romans utilised octagonal towers[1] as elements of Diocletian's Palace in Croatia, which monument dates to approximately 300 AD, while the Servian Walls (4th century BC) and the Aurelian Walls (3rd century AD) featured square ones. The Chinese used towers as integrated elements of the Great Wall of China in 210 BC during the Qin dynasty. Towers were also an important element of castles.
Other well known towers include the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Pisa, Italy built from 1173 until 1372, the Two Towers in Bologna, Italy built from 1109 until 1119 and the Towers of Pavia (25 survive), built between 11th and 13th century. The Himalayan Towers are stone towers located chiefly in Tibet built approximately 14th to 15th century.[2]
Up to a certain height, a tower can be made with the supporting structure with parallel sides. However, above a certain height, the compressive load of the material is exceeded, and the tower will fail. This can be avoided if the tower's support structure tapers up the building.
A third limit is dynamic; a tower is subject to varying winds, vortex shedding, seismic disturbances etc. These are often dealt with through a combination of simple strength and stiffness, as well as in some cases tuned mass dampers to damp out movements. Varying or tapering the outer aspect of the tower with height avoids vibrations due to vortex shedding occurring along the entire building simultaneously.
Although not correctly defined as towers, many modern high-rise buildings (in particular skyscraper) have 'tower' in their name or are colloquially called 'towers'. Skyscrapers are more properly classified as 'buildings'. In the United Kingdom, tall domestic buildings are referred to as tower blocks. In the United States, the original World Trade Center had the nickname the Twin Towers, a name shared with the Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur. In addition some of the structures listed below do not follow the strict criteria used at List of tallest towers.
The tower throughout history has provided its users with an advantage in surveying defensive positions and obtaining a better view of the surrounding areas, including battlefields. They were constructed on defensive walls, or rolled near a target (see siege tower). Today, strategic-use towers are still used at prisons, military camps, and defensive perimeters.
By using gravity to move objects or substances downward, a tower can be used to store items or liquids like a storage silo or a water tower, or aim an object into the earth such as a drilling tower. Ski-jump ramps use the same idea, and in the absence of a natural mountain slope or hill, can be human-made.
In history, simple towers like lighthouses, bell towers, clock towers, signal towers and minarets were used to communicate information over greater distances. In more recent years, radio masts and cell phone towers facilitate communication by expanding the range of the transmitter. The CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada was built as a communications tower, with the capability to act as both a transmitter and repeater.
Towers can also be used to support bridges, and can reach heights that rival some of the tallest buildings above-water. Their use is most prevalent in suspension bridges and cable-stayed bridges. The use of the pylon, a simple tower structure, has also helped to build railroad bridges, mass-transit systems, and harbors.
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Tower provides a simple core abstraction, the Service trait, whichrepresents an asynchronous function taking a request and returning either aresponse or an error. This abstraction can be used to model both clients andservers.
Generic components, like timeouts, rate limiting, and load balancing,can be modeled as Services that wrap some inner service and applyadditional behavior before or after the inner service is called. This allowsimplementing these components in a protocol-agnostic, composable way. Typically,such services are referred to as middleware.
An additional abstraction, the Layer trait, is used to composemiddleware with Services. If a Service can be thought of as anasynchronous function from a request type to a response type, a Layer isa function taking a Service of one type and returning a Service of adifferent type. The ServiceBuilder type is used to add middleware to aservice by composing it with multiple Layers.
Since the Service and Layer traits are important integration pointsfor all libraries using Tower, they are kept as stable as possible, andbreaking changes are made rarely. Therefore, they are defined in separatecrates, tower-service and tower-layer. This crate containsre-exports of those core traits, implementations of commonly-usedmiddleware, and utilities for working with Services and Layers.Finally, the tower-test crate provides tools for testing programs usingTower.
Implementing middleware to add custom behavior to network clients andservers in a reusable manner. This might be general-purpose middleware(and if it is, please consider releasing your middleware as a library forother Tower users!) or application-specific behavior that needs to beshared between multiple clients or servers.
Implementing a network protocol. Libraries that implement networkprotocols (such as HTTP) can depend on tower-service to use theService trait as an integration point between the protocol and usercode. For example, a client for some protocol might implement Service,allowing users to add arbitrary Tower middleware to those clients.Similarly, a server might be created from a user-provided Service.
Additionally, when a network protocol requires functionality alreadyprovided by existing Tower middleware, a protocol implementation might useTower middleware internally, as well as as an integration point.
Tower will keep a rolling MSRV (minimum supported Rust version) policy of atleast 6 months. When increasing the MSRV, the new Rust version must have beenreleased at least six months ago. The current MSRV is 1.49.0.
From the 18th to the 25th of July, a booking is compulsory to access the monument. A QR Code will is not required.
Choose the "Free Esplanade" ticket, to access the ticket offices and buy ascent tickets. Choose a paid ticket for priority access, without going through the ticket offices.
The Eiffel tower is closed the 26th of July 2024.
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To check the prices for the Eiffel Tower, please visit this page on the official Eiffel Tower site. The Eiffel Tower online ticket office provides the official prices.
The adult price applies to adults 25 years and over. There are discount rates for young people (12-24 years old), children (4-11 years old) and for visitors with disabilities and those accompanying them (maximum of one accompanying person per disabled person). Admission is free for children under 4 years old. The price of the ticket varies upon how you go up (elevator and/or stairs) and the destination (2nd floor or the upper floor) you select.
Certain days (weekends, days during peak season between July and August) are in high demand and we sell out quickly, especially for e-tickets for the top floor, which are the most popular. If you are flexible, select another date that is shown as available. The dates marked in orange indicate that the last tickets are available. Lined out or grayed out dates are no longer available. If there is no more online availability, note that tickets to visit the Eiffel Tower are also sold on site at the ticket offices at the monument.
Regardless, we sell our tickets online up to 60 days in advance (for lift tickets) and 14 days in advance (for stairs tickets to second floor). If you can, plan your visit well in advance, so you will have the choice of date, destination and time.