Two Timer

Author: Fredric Brown
Published: 1954
Language: English
Wordcount: 1,805 / 12 pg
Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease: 43.5
LoC Category: PS
Downloads: 1,533
Added to site: 2009.09.10
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Origin: gutenberg.org

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only on objects weighing less than three pounds, five ounces and for distances into the past and future of twelve minutes or less. But it works."

The small-scale model looked like a small scale--a postage scale--except for two dials in the part under the platform.

Professor Johnson held up a small metal cube. "Our experimental object," he said, "is a brass cube weighing one pound, two point three ounces. First, I shall send it five minutes into the future."

He leaned forward and set one of the dials on the time machine. "Look at your watches," he said.

They looked at their watches. Professor Johnson placed the cube gently on the mach

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