The Time Machine is an 1895 dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction
novella by H. G. Wells about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller
who travels approximately 800,806 years into the future. 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.
Utilizing a frame story set in then-present Victorian England, Wells' text
focuses on a recount of the otherwise anonymous Time Traveller's journey into
the far future.