How it was written

Wells worked on the idea of time travel for seven years before The Time Machine came out.

1. 
   1888

   The Chronic Argonauts

   Wells wrote a time travel story for his college newspaper. It was the seed of The Time Machine.

2. 
   1894

   Newspaper essays

   For the editor W. E. Henley he turned the idea into a series of short pieces in the National Observer.

3. 
   1895

   The New Review

   Henley then ran the story as a serial in The New Review, from January to May 1895.

4. 
   1895

   The book

   Holt published it in New York on 7 May and Heinemann in London on 29 May. The two texts differ.

5. 
   Today

   A new word

   The phrase "time machine", made popular by Wells, is now used everywhere.

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• The Time MachineWikipedia

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