Turbine

:For the developers of Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, see Turbine Inc..

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A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin coined the term from the Latin turbinis, or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor-blade assembly. Moving fluid acts on the blades to spin them and impart energy to the rotor. Early turbine examples are windmills and water wheels.

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A turbine operating in reverse is called a compressor or Turbopump.

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Gas, steam and water turbines usually have a casing around the blades that focuses and controls the fluid. The casing and blades may have variable geometry that allow efficient operation for a range of fluid flow conditions.

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Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games: REDIRECT Massively multiplayer online role-playing game...

Turbine Inc.: Turbine, Inc. (formerly Turbine Entertainment Software) is a Westwood, Massachusetts-based computer game developer that developed the popular massively multiplayer role-playing games (MMORPGs) Asheron's Call, ', and Asheron's Call 2. Since May 2003, Turbine has been working on two MMORPGs: The Lord ...

Engine: An engine is something that produces some effect from a given input. The origin of engineering was the working of engines. There is an overlap in English between two meanings of the word "engineer": 'those who operate engines' and 'those who design and construct new items'....

Turbine related Images and Photos (experimental)

Wind Turbine at Sunset Computer Generation

New Route to the Isle of Man Via Heysham on the Fast Turbine Steamer Manxman