Turbine

It goes round-n-round and makes power. You can make electricity or power airplanes with them. And lots else.

Google "Turbine".

In accordance with the articles on the topic in Wikipedia?

Make one of these and blow on it; that's how a turbine works:

Where's the instructions, with pictures?

You also don't specify on which side to blow.

This isn't a homework cheat site...

Since you didn't specify what type of turbine, I chose a jet engine......The air is sucked in the front, compressed with a series of slanted blades, fuel is sprayed in then ignited....The compressed ignited air/fuel mixture then expands rapidly as it heats, and is forced out the rear exerting pressure against another series of blades slanted in the opposite direction driving the shaft which in turn compresses the air entering the front and so on.....

What keeps it from blowing back out the front of the turbine?

You gave away the whole secret; it really blows out between radially and tangentially. (Well, if you don't put too much curlicue in the "blades".)

See 'compressor stall'.

Pressure waves.....? It's a delicate balance to be sure, and subject to failure with disruption in the flow dynamic....

it spins

this one works with a little water pressure and makes a couple of watts, the shaft weighs 100 tons and can be found in one of the powerhouses@the Hoover, NOT Boulder dam. they're pretty cool you should make atrip just to see them like I have

Let me guess: 40 poles, 180 rpm [?].

you're pretty smart for a column of swirling air

Are they still giving tours, after 9/11? I toured one on the Tennessee River when I was a kid, but I understand they have stopped because of 'security concerns'.

Well, go to New Zealand instead then, because they are still happening there.