This DOES (IIRC) look like the version of Crawford Tillinghast's machine in the movie of "From Beyond" (which actually followed Lovecraft's vision, but with 70s logic instead of 20s... hence the two survivors - both insane - at the end are minorities...). The pinneal gland thing was also a 70s addition - Lovecraft never worried about a "scientific" basis for the ability to see things From Beyond... {MadRed, I read Time Machine years ago, and yes, the main character did have a name, and it was something like Filby, but I don't remember for sure. } If he had a name, it was something he claimed briefly in the story; the brilliant Leage of Extraodinary Gentlemen comic book (with option to become a movie sometime next year, or so I hear) has a back-up story in which the character introduces himself as "The Time Traveller" and claims to have no other name, or at least no name of import. And the story manages to tie H. Rider Haggard (sp), H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and H.G. Wells together brilliantly (though the main story manages to bring in EVERYTHING from the 1890s fiction - Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Jeckyll, Fu Manchu, Captain Nemo, all of it - great book).