Editing The Time Machine (section)

==The Time Traveller==

Although the Time Traveller's real name is never given in the original novella, other sources have named him:

*The 1960 film named him '''H. George Wells''', although he was only called George in dialogue.
*In the 1978 [[telefilm]] version of the story, the Time Traveller (this time a modern-day [[United States|American]]) is named Dr. '''Neil Perry'''.
*H.&nbsp;G. Wells's great-grandson, [[Simon Wells]], directed a [[The Time Machine (2002 film)|2002 remake]] where the Time Traveller's name is '''Alexander Hartdegen'''.
*In ''[[The Time Ships]]'', [[Stephen Baxter (author)|Stephen Baxter]]'s sequel to ''The Time Machine'', the Time Traveller encounters his younger self via time travel. His younger self reacts with embarrassment to his older self's knowledge of his real names: "I held up my hand; I had an inspiration. "No. I will use—if you will permit—''Moses''." He took a deep pull on his brandy, and gazed at me with genuine anger in his grey eyes. "How do you know about that?" '''Moses'''—my hated first name, for which I had been endlessly tormented at school—and which I had kept a secret since leaving home!"<ref>Baxter, Stephen. ''The Time Ships'' (HarperPrism, 1995), p. 137.</ref> This is a reference to H.&nbsp;G. Wells's story "[[The Chronic Argonauts]]", the story which grew into ''The Time Machine'', in which the inventor of the Time Machine is named Dr. Moses Nebogipfel; the surname of Wells's first inventor graces another character in Baxter's book (see [[#History|above]]).
*''[[Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life]]'' by [[Philip José Farmer]] gives the Time Traveller's name as '''Bruce Clarke Wildman'''.
*''[[Rook (comics)|The Rook]]'' comic book series gives the Time Traveller's name as '''Adam Dane'''.
*In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic strip story "The Eternal Present", the character of '''Theophilus Tolliver''' is implied to be the Time Traveller of Wells's novella. Also featured in ''[[Doctor Who]]'' is Wells, himself, appearing in the television serial ''[[Timelash]]''. The events of this story are portrayed as having inspired Wells to write ''The Time Machine''.
*In Episode 11, Season 1, of US television series '' [[Legends of Tomorrow]]'' the team travels back in time to the Old West in hopes to hide from the Time Masters. During their stay there the character Martin Stein saves a boy's life with modern medicine. After a fighting scene that reveals their whole team to be from the future, Martin Stein learns that the name of the boy he saved is Herbert George Wells. "You're H.&nbsp;G. Wells?" he asks him, the boy replies "H.&nbsp;G. Wells, I like that name", implying that they inspired the stories that he wrote and also the name he goes by.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/legends-of-tomorrow/39981/legends-of-tomorrow-episode-11-review-the-magnificent-eight|title=Legends of Tomorrow episode 11 review: The Magnificent Eight|website=Den of Geek|access-date=2016-04-22|archive-date=19 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319080756/http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/legends-of-tomorrow/39981/legends-of-tomorrow-episode-11-review-the-magnificent-eight|url-status=dead}}</ref>
*''The Hertford Manuscript'' by [[Richard Cowper]] names the Time Traveller as Dr. '''Robert James Pensley''', born to James and Martha Pensley in 1850 and disappearing without trace on 18 June 1894, and who was part of the same social and political circle as Wells – in particular, the [[Fabian Society]].
*''[[The Space Machine]]'' by [[Christopher Priest (novelist)|Christopher Priest]] gives the Time Traveller's name as '''William Reynolds'''.
*''Sherlock Holmes & The Coils of Time'' by [[Ralph E. Vaughan]] gives the Time Traveller's name as '''Moesen Maddoc'''.
*The I.C.E. role-playing game supplement ''Time Riders'' suggests that the Time Traveller's name is '''Ashleigh Holmes'''. It suggests that the Time Traveller is actually a woman who disguised herself as a man during the male chauvinistic Victorian era. She is said to be the sister of [[Sherlock Holmes]].
*It has also been suggested that the Time Traveller was based on [[Thomas Edison]].