The Time Machine is a science fiction novella by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. Given the skepticism of his friends, a scientist from the late nineteenth century manages to discover the keys to the so-called "fourth dimension" (Time) and build a vehicle that allows you to physically travel through it. Meanwhile his friends gather at home, but once the host does not appear. After waiting a while, your friends see him in a parlous state. He tells the story of how he traveled through time: with the intention to know the future of humanity moved until 802,701, but far from finding a company in the fullness of its development, he sees a fallen world inhabited in its surface for a hedonistic beings (the Eloi), but without writing, intelligence or physical strength. The Traveler supposed to end so must humanity after solving all your existential conflicts, however, soon discovers that these beings live with an immense underground and fear of the dark. The subsoil is dominated by a sinister creatures, the Morlock, another branch of the human species has been used to living in darkness and goes out at night to feed on the Eloi to capture. After doing some explorations around on arrival to the future, back to where you left the time machine, but no longer; later he will realize that Morlock's been locked in the pedestal of a statue depicting a sphinx located at the place where appeared the Time Traveller.