I gave this story by Edward Page Mitchell 5 stars, not as a reader in 2014 but as a reader of 130 years ago. In a world without Asimov, Heinlein, Silverberg or even Wells, a world without Star Trek and Back to the Future, this must have been something really new and fresh. It was, I believe, the first ever time travel story that made use of a mechanical device to transport people to the past. Before that, time travel had always been conducted through falling asleep and waking up in another epoch. A nice little story that must have given many people an enjoyable afternoon in the 1880s.
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