Asimov had "kettles" in The End of Eternity and Van Damme rode a sled in Timecop. When the Llyddwddites pick up their inevitable pitchforks, Nebogipfel and a local reverend vanish aboard "a peculiar erection of brass and ivory." After the reverend rematerializes, he describes "the ship that sails through time," the Chronic Argo. Nebogipfel moves into a manse near the town of Llyddwdd and builds a strange device behind his boarded-up windows. For that you have to rewind to 1888 and "The Chronic Argonauts." In this Wells short story, the mysterious Dr. Wells once declared: "I am extravagantly obsessed by the thing that might be, and impatient with the present I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own." He did just that in 1895 with The Time Machine, the novel that coined the eponymous term-but not the idea.
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