Segner wheel

The water is delivered to the top of a vertical cylinder, at the bottom of which is a rotor with specially bent pipes with nozzles (see image).

Due to the hydrostatic pressure, the water is ejected from the nozzles, causing the rotor to rotate.

Alexander Bogdanov cited this an example of an important innovation which paved the way for the development of steam engines.

[2] The turbine at Museo Hacienda Buena Vista is "the only pre-Scotch (sic) type known to exist and is the sole extant example of a pioneer and historically important machine that was invented at the close of the 17th century by Dr. Baker....

The Buena Vista turbine is, in effect, a missing link in the evolution of mechanical artifacts better known to the historians of technology."