Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
Got those [sc. scars] with a broken bottle, arresting two toughs at once, he said, replacing his cap. Run them in single-handed and had a set-to in the cell with them on top of it.
Heidi? Kurtz echoed. Heidi? That's a damned odd name for an English elder sister, isn't it? Not for Heidi, it isn't, she replied buoyantly, and scored an immediate laugh from the kids beyond the lighting. Heidi because her parents went to Switzerland for their honeymoon, she explained; and Switzerland was where Heidi was conceived. Among the edelweiss, she added, with a sigh.
