The Time Machine (1960) is a classic science fiction film based on the 1895 novel of the same name by H.G. Wells. The film follows the story of a scientist, Dr. Alexander Hartdegen, who invents a time machine and embarks on a journey to the
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The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian science fiction novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. 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.