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Journey through time

The machine never moves in space, only in time. Scroll to travel with the Time Traveller from 1895 to the end of the world.

1895: Richmond laboratory Years flash by 802,701: the Eloi Below: the Morlocks 30 million years: the last beach

Diagram, not to scale

  1. Chapter 1

    The fourth dimension

    At dinner in Richmond he explains time as a direction.

    Listen: Chapter 1
  2. Chapter 2

    The machine

    Brass, ivory and crystal in his laboratory.

    Listen: Chapter 2
  3. Chapter 4

    Time travelling

    Day and night flicker past faster and faster.

    Listen: Chapter 4
  4. Chapter 5

    The White Sphinx

    He lands beside a huge white statue.

    Listen: Chapter 5
  5. Chapter 5

    The golden age

    The small Eloi feast on fruit in a ruined hall.

    Listen: Chapter 5
  6. Chapter 9

    Down the well

    He climbs into the dark world of the Morlocks.

    Listen: Chapter 9
  7. Chapter 11

    Green Porcelain

    A ruined museum full of old machines.

    Listen: Chapter 11
  8. Chapter 12

    Weena lost

    Fire in the forest, and Weena is gone.

    Listen: Chapter 12
  9. Chapter 14

    The last beach

    A red sun, a cold sea and giant crabs.

    Listen: Chapter 14
  10. Chapter 16

    Home again

    Back in 1895, with two strange flowers.

    Listen: Chapter 16