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6 unusual facts about The Time Machine


Arnold Leibovit

In 2002 he served as the executive producer for The Time Machine.

Dan Simmons

In The Fall of Hyperion, John Keats appears as one of the main characters, with references to characters in Forbidden Planet and The Time Machine.

Danièle Chatelain

H. G. Wells's Perennial Time Machine: Selected Essays from the Centenary Conference The Time Machine: Past, Present and Future, Imperial College, London, July 26–29, 1995, ed.

The Gene Machine

The plot shared many common elements with Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon, as well as many other literary and historical references to Victorian England, such as Sherlock Holmes, Treasure Island, The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jack the Ripper and many others.

Weena Morloch

The name Weena Morloch came from the H.G. Wells book The Time Machine ("Weena" is the name of the girl that the unnamed male protagonist develops a close loving relationship with in the future world he travels to, and the name "Morloch" is derived from the Morlocks, the cannibalistic hominids).

There was nod to the earlier Kunst material though, such as the eerie "Terror über alles" which was a noise-music take on the events of September 11, and "Weena Morlock (Der Grammophon - Song)" which took samples from The Time Machine movie and the beat was entirely composed using a gramophone.


All Aboard for Ararat

God returns to Noah Lammock a week later, and, after some literary chit-chat that reveals that God is under the misapprehension that Noah Lammock is the author of The Time Machine The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind, and World Brain, the two discuss the plan for the Ark.

The Chronic Argonauts

First published by the Royal College of Science in 1888, it is the first well-developed use of a machine constructed to travel through time (a "time machine") in science fiction, as it predates Wells's more famous time travelling novel, The Time Machine, by 7 years.


see also

88 MPH

DeLorean time machine, the time machine that must reach 88 mph to teleport through time.

Allan and the Sundered Veil

They are attacked by albino creatures known as both Morlocks (from The Time Machine) and Mi-go (from the Cthulhu Mythos).

David Bischoff

His interest in dinosaurs led him to write the second of 24 books in the Time Machine series, Search for Dinosaurs, which is actually about finding Archaeopteryx, the first bird.

Retro City Rampage

The Player must work with Doc Choc to gather the rare parts needed to repair the time booth, while avoiding law enforcement, his own former employer Jester, Bayside High School students, and Dr. Von Buttnik, Doc Choc's rival and the head of R&D at A.T. Corp, a tech corporation and The Player's former employer, who's CEO, Sweat Bomber, wishes to use the time machine to control the electronics market.

Time Machine 50th Anniversary Tour

The Time Machine 50th Anniversary Tour was a celebration of the 50 years Cliff Richard has been performing.

Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time

Season two began shooting in April of 2013, with the announcement that Mayim Bialik would be joining the series as the voice of the time machine.