Nowadays, time travel is just about everywhere you look, films to TV shows and even literature. Our society has become obsessed with the idea of traveling through time.
However, that wasn't true just 150 years ago. The gate was opened by H. G. Wells' novel, The Time Machine, which (publish) in 1895. In this book, Wells describes a man who builds a machine that enables him (move) throughout the course of history and into the future. The story is important because it views time as something (flow).
Before this book came out, time was (basic) viewed as a oneway street. You could only go forward, and only at one speed. In this way, Wells' (create) account transformed the way people viewed time and time travel.
It was so successful largely because it came out at the end of 19th century when tremendous change was in the air. As the (twenty) century dawned, people were becoming incredibly excited for the future. It was a period of huge technological as well as scientific (grow) and, for the first time ever, people were living in a way that was dramatically different from generation before them.
In other words, it was the first time that the past, future and present would be entirely different. This simple historical moment is made time travel so fascinating.
