Illustration of the "Disk" (left) and "Turbine Wheel" of a Kilburn turbine, from an 1874 catalog. The turbine wheel (or runner) -- which engaged onto the disk (or fixed spiral guide vanes) -- was propelled by the outward discharge of water. Year: 1874. Image Credit: Courtesy of The American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Mass..

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