The Time Machine: resumo de Chapter 1

O que acontece

1. At an after-dinner gathering, the Time Traveller argues that real objects need duration as well as three spatial dimensions.
2. He uses portraits at different ages and a weather chart to explain time as another dimension.
3. The Medical Man and the Psychologist question whether people can move through time, and Filby rejects the argument.
4. The Time Traveller describes a proposed machine whose operator can choose movement through space and time, and claims experimental proof.
5. The guests imagine historical study, language learning, and financial gain, while the narrator suggests a communist future.
6. The Time Traveller goes to his laboratory and returns while the others speculate about a trick.

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