They are called Eloi, and are about four feet high with curly hair, red lips, and large, liquid eyes. He also notices a huge, magnificent building. Nearby on a bronze pedestal stood the white marble statue of a sphinx.

He could tell from dials that the year was 802,701. He was scared, and the motion was unsettling. As he pressed the future lever, he flew through time, watching day and night rapidly switch places. In the semidarkness after dinner, he tells the following tale about what happened:Īt 10 o'clock that morning, he set out in the time machine. He claims to have been traveling through time. Suddenly, the Time Traveller appears, pale, dirty, and bleeding.

Because it is already 7:30 p.m., they sit down to dinner. The next Thursday when the group reconvenes at the house, the Time Traveller is not there. It has a saddle and two levers, one to go forward and one to go back through time. He takes his guests to his laboratory where he shows them an object made of crystal, ivory, and brass. Just as people can move around in space with the help of balloons to go up, so, he claims, they can move around in time. The period is the late 19th century.Īfter dinner, the Time Traveller theorizes that time is simply a fourth dimension of space. It opens on a Thursday evening dinner party at the Time Traveller's house in the London suburb of Richmond. The Time Machine tells the story of man who claims to travel through time and the group of gentlemen friends who do not believe him.

The time machine novel