![]() ![]() ![]() This simple historical moment is what made time travel so riveting. In other words, it was the first time that the past, future and present would be entirely different. It was a period of huge technological as well as scientific growth and, for the first time ever, people were living in a way that was dramatically different from the generation before them. ![]() As the twentieth century dawned, people were becoming incredibly excited for the future. Largely because it came out at the end of the nineteenth century when tremendous change was in the air. In this way, Wells’ fictional account transformed the way people viewed time and time travel. You could only go forward, and only at one speed. The story is important because it approaches time as something flowing, that, with the appropriate vessel, could be sailed.īefore this book came out, time was basically viewed as a one-way street. In The Time Machine, Wells describes a man, called simply the Time Traveler, who builds a machine that enables him to move throughout the course of history and into the future. Wells’ novel, The Time Machine, which was published in 1895. However, that wasn’t true just 150 years ago. And that’s no accident: society has become obsessed with the idea of traveling through time. Nowadays, time travel is just about everywhere you look, from films to TV shows and even literature. ![]()
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