The Machine
The Time Machine was invented by Professor Frederick Turner. The machine has been cobbled together from various different pieces of electronic equipment over the years and has a distinctly home-made look about it. Turner built the machine in the living room of his flat in Sundown Court where he lived with his daughter Holly and presumably at some stage his wife. Holly is the only other person he ever told about the machine. The most vital component for the machine is the electro-magnetic crystal which is in the heart of the machine, unfortunately it is also the single most expensive part of the machine, Turner had to sell his house in order to buy his. The machine can only travel backwards in time as it is not possible to travel into the future which doesn't exist and it can only go back as far as few hours into the past, though it could in theory take you back a week. Attached to the machine is a time piece which has a small analogue clock and a digital countdown display. This indicates how far back the machine has taken you and how much time remains until you are back at the time you left. This time piece can be removed from the machine and placed in a watch which the time traveller can use to carry it round with to remind them of how much time is left. The time piece must be replaced in the machine before the countdown reaches zero otherwise the traveller or travellers will be caught in a loop of infinity constantly living out the same few hours that they travelled back in time. This is what happened to Frederick Turner. The machine is now maintained by Holly and she is the only person to know about it until she tells her friend and colleague Jeff Slade.
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