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This page is a listing of articles for time machines: any fictional, theoretical, or hypothetical device used for time travel. Pages in category "Time travel devices" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way. Usually, these machines consist of a series of simple unrelated devices; the action of each triggers the initiation ...
The time machine went through several variations during production of the first film, Back to the Future. In the first draft of the screenplay, the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room; at the end of the draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to a nuclear bomb test.
The Mutoscope is an early motion picture device, invented by W. K. L. Dickson and Herman Casler [1] and granted U.S. patent 549309A to Herman Casler on November 5, 1895. [2] Like Thomas Edison 's Kinetoscope , it did not project on a screen and provided viewing to only one person at a time .
A kleroterion (Ancient Greek: κληρωτήριον, romanized: klērōtērion) was a randomization device used by the Athenian polis during the period of democracy to select citizens to the boule, to most state offices, to the nomothetai, and to court juries. The kleroterion was a slab of stone incised with rows of slots and with an attached ...
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Fragments of a geared calendar attached to a sundial, from the fifth or sixth century Byzantine Empire, have been found; the calendar may have been used to assist in telling time. [94] In the Islamic world, Banū Mūsā's Kitab al-Hiyal, or Book of Ingenious Devices, was commissioned by the Caliph of Baghdad in the early