Time Traveler

The Time Traveller is, as his name suggests, a man who invented the worlds first working Time Machine. His real name is unknown.

Origin
The Time Traveller is a British scientist and gentleman, living in Richmond, Surrey. His first time travel took him to the year 802,701, where he encountered the peaceful, small, elegant, childlike Eloi and the monstrous, subterranean Morlocks. At first he believed both races to be descendants of 19th century humanity, having evolved in two different directions due to the great divide between social classes in his time. In this distant future he also found a statue of a sphinx, which he later remodeled to use as his own headquarters.

After his return from the future, he told his adventures to his disbelieving visitors, producing as evidence two strange flowers he brought with him from the future. The next day he departed again for another time travel, promising to be back in half an hour, but he never returned.

Public Domain Literary Appearances

 * The Time Machine by H.G. Wells, published in 1895