Prof Mallett has built a table-top device that illustrates principles he thinks could be used to build a real, working time machine. First, lasers are used to generate a circulating beam of light.

Photo: IC H.G. Wells, a beacon in the realm of science fiction, has particularly captivated me with his novel titled The Time Machine. The Time Machine is a groundbreaking science fiction first ...

In Time Machines Richard Tawsexamines the relationship between art and telegraphy in the decades following the French Revolution. The optical telegraph was a novel form of visual communication ...