The Time Machine: An Invention

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The Time Machine
This cover shows floating clocks, evocative of a landscape of Eloi Domed Pavilions but also suggesting time travel.
Full Title	The Time Machine: An Invention
Author	H.G. Wells
Time Traveler	The Time Traveler
Companion(s)	Weena
The cover of one edition of The Time Machine. It shows The Time Machine.

The Time Machine, also known as The Time Machine: An Invention, is the title of the novel by H.G. Wells, the second but most famous work based on his idea of a time machine, the first being The Chronic Argonauts.

The story features the character known only as The Time Traveler, shortly after having invented The Time Machine. He narrates to his friends the story of his first trip into the future, where he met two post-human races: the Eloi and the Morlocks.

Characters

• The Time Traveler
• Filby
• Mrs. Watchett
• Weena
• "Shy, Quiet One"

Vehicles

• The Time Machine

Races

• Eloi
• Morlocks
• Crab monsters

Non-sapient

• Butterfly creatures
• The Thing

Adaptations

Novels

• The Time Machine (Great Illustrated Classics)

TV & Movies

• The Time Machine (1949 Production)
• The Time Machine (1960 Film)
• The Time Machine (1978 Film)
• Wishbone - "Bark to the Future"
• The Time Machine (2002 Film)
• Morlocks (Film)

Comics

• Classics Illustrated
• Graphic Classics
• Marvel Classics Comics

Computer & Video Games

• The New Adventures of the Time Machine
• The Time Machine: Trapped in Time

Book cover gallery

For a gallery of illustrations from various editions of the book, see The Time Machine - Illustration Gallery.

This section is a gallery of book covers of the many editions of The Time Machine.

Signet Classic edition.

Adventure Theater

Great Illustrated Classics edition.

ABDO Books Graphic Classics.

A Spanish edition.

This cover shows The Time Traveler disembarking from The Time Machine, into the post-Mor world found in the distant future.

SF Masterworks.

Moby Illustraded Classics Edition

Turkish Edition, 1893

A Pyramid Adventure Classic, 1966

AudiSee Stereo presentation

Aerie