Gliding into the Future: 10 Unlikely Time Machines

When it hit theaters months ago, Hot Tub Time Machine made audiences believe that a Jacuzzi filled with a contraband Russian energy drink could send people back in time. Our Steve Snyder was “meh” on the flick but it’s out on DVD today, if you want to see if you disagree with him. The mechanics of chronal displacement in HTTM may seem silly but, when you think about it, it’s no more bizarre than some other modes of time travel.  Here’s a few iconic devices that have ferried men to the past, the future and back again.

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  • richardsrussell

    How about the battleship from “The Philadelphia Experiment”? Or the oil portrait of Jane Seymour from “Somewhere in Time”? Pretty much any old-timey car and the proper mental attitude got Jack Finney’s protagonists back to simpler times in Galesburg, Illinois.

    And, while not strictly machines, unbearable psychological and emotional pressures provide the impetus for the female protagonists to time travel (one forward, the other backward) in 2 of the finest SF novels ever written, Marge Piercy’s “Woman on the Edge of Time” and Octavia Butler’s incomparable “Kindred”.

  • http://ianthecool.wordpress.com ianthecool

    Don’t forget about Homer’s time-traveling toaster.

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