The Time Machine is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novella by H. G. Wells,
published in 1895 The work is generally credited with the popularization of the
concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and
selectively forward or backward through time. The term "time machine", coined by
Wells, is now almost universally used to refer to such a vehicle or device.
Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells' text foc ...