1980,AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page98:
Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driventurbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.
Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latinturbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of aturbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
