turbine
A turbine is a rotating engine that extracts energy from a flow of fluid. During the engineering competition in 1828, the cloud turbine was named turbine after the Latin turbo, which means vortex. Blade's pupil Benoit Poneethol made his first practical hydraulic turbine. The simplest turbines have moving parts with wings attached. By moving the fluid over the wing, energy is transferred to the axis. The initial turbines are windmills, spinning wheels, for example. Gas turbines, steam turbines, and hydro turbines have a lid around the wing, which controls the fluid. The inventor of the modern steam turbine is known as the British engineer Charles Ezern Parsons. A device similar to a turbine, but with an inverted operating system, has a pump and a compressor. Generally, there are axial-flow compressors in many gas turbine engines.