A tow is an untwisted bundle of continuous filaments. It often refers to flax, hemp or jute in the textile industry, and to man-made fibers, particularly carbon and graphite fibers, in the composites industry. Flax tows are often used as upholstery stuffing, and tows in general are frequently cut up to produce staple fibers.
Tows are designated by the number of fibers they contain, e.g. a 12K tow contains about 12,000 fibers.
The first ski tow was apparently installed in 1933 by Alec Foster built the at Shawbridge in the Laurentians outside Montreal, Quebec.
Their tow was driven by the rear wheel of a Ford Model A.
Although largely supplanted by chair lifts, which have the great advantage of not blocking off a portion of the mountain, rope tows are still common at ski areas around the world, particularly small areas or in relatively flat portions of ski areas devoted to beginners (often called bunny slopes).
The TOW was one of the earliest missile systems to arrive in SWA because of the large Iraqi armored threat it was deployed with some of the first units in Saudi: the 82nd Airborne Division, the 24th Mechanized Division and the101st Airborne Division.
TOW missiles proved to be a determining factor in the first ground engagement of Operation Desert Storm.
TOW 2A Bunker Buster is scheduled to be fielded to the U.S. ArmyStryker.
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