TIMEMACHINE WINDOWS

TIMEMACHINE WINDOWS

Returning to his house, George removes the boards over his laboratory windows and speeds ahead to 1940, stopping his journey when he feels a large bomb explode in the neighborhood. James informs him that after the inventor disappeared, David, as executor of the inventor's estate, refused to liquidate the house, certain that the owner would come back. After the man, James Filby, explains that George must be mistaking him for his father David, who died in the war, George inquires about the 'inventor' who lived in the house.

When his house windows suddenly become boarded up, George stops the machine in 1917 to find a man resembling David on the sidewalk nearby. Pushing ahead, George notices the mannequin in a shop window across the street change styles drastically over each passing year. At first advancing only a few hours, George can see the flowers bloom and die within seconds. As George pushes the main lever forward, a display counter clocks his movement in time. Returning to his laboratory alone, George seats himself in a full-size version of the time machine, a sleigh powered by a large disc at the rear, and a Victorian chair and a control panel at the helm. George replies that he is discouraged by human behavior and the proliferation of weapons and asks his friend to return to the house with the others for dinner on 5 January. As the others turn to leave, one of the men, David Filby, asks George why he is preoccupied with time. When George unveils a miniature version of the machine, makes it disappear 'into the future' with the switch of a lever and then insists that he, too, will travel into the future, his friends suggest he contribute to the war effort instead of dabbling in tricks. Responding to an invitation issued five days earlier, five gentlemen meet at the London residence of their mutual friend, scientist George, who, having arrived late and disheveled, recounts the last five days, beginning with the group's 31 December 1899 meeting: George explains that he has been working for two years to prove the possibility of movement within the fourth dimension, time, by creating a time machine to carry man into the future or past.

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