Time Traveling

“I told you of the principles of the Time Machine, and showed you the actual thing itself, incomplete. There it is now, a little travel-worn. One of the ivory bars is cracked, and a brass rail bent, but the rest of it’s sound enough. At ten o’clock today, the first-of-all Time Machines began its career. I gave it a last tap and sat in the saddle. Taking the starting lever in one hand and the stopping one in the other, I pressed the first, and almost immediately the second. I…

“I gripped the starting lever with both hands and went off with a thud. The laboratory got hazy and went dark. Mrs. Watchett came in and walked, apparently without seeing me, towards the garden door. She seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket. I pressed the lever over to its extreme position. The night came quickly and in another moment came tomorrow. The laboratory grew faint and hazy, then fainter and ever fainter. Tomorrow night came black, then day again, night again, day again, faster and faster still.…