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H.G. Welles's The Time Machine (1896) is commonly credited with popularizing the idea of time machines. However, it only deals with traveling into the future, never even bringing up the idea of going back to the past. What story popularized the idea of going to the past and/or changing the present?

by /u/Idk_Very_Much in /r/AskHistorians

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