{"id":126,"date":"2026-01-16T17:36:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/?post_type=item&#038;p=126"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:36:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:36:38","slug":"the-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/item\/the-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>The Time Machine, an Invention<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br>H.G. Wells\u00a0<br>New York:\u00a0H. Holt,\u00a01895\u00a0<br>Central Library\u00a0<br>Vanderbilt University Libraries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H.G. Wells\u2019\u00a0novella\u00a0<em><strong>The Time Machine<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0introduces\u00a0a new invention:\u00a0a machine capable of carrying\u00a0a traveler\u00a0to any point in time one\u00a0desires.\u00a0While not the\u00a0first\u00a0to use time travel as a theme,\u00a0Wells\u00a0was the first to propose a \u201ctime machine\u201d as a physical invention.\u00a0The popularity of the novella helped\u00a0make the theme of time travel by means of a physical device a popular feature of science fiction tales.\u00a0Wells\u2019\u00a0projection of the consequences of inequality and urban decay on\u00a0the\u00a0evolution of the human species\u00a0highlights\u00a0the fragile nature of civilization.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":81,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[3],"class_list":["post-126","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-dystopias-utopias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/126\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}