Fifty four years ago today, Dr Emmett L. Brown (above) of Hill Valley California made history by devising a way to change it. On that day in 1955, his radical idea of the flux capacitor (which as we all know is what makes time travel possible) came to the famous inventor through simple chance. "I was hanging a clock, slipped on the toilet and hit my head on the edge of the sink. When I came to, I had a vision... a revelation: the flux capacitor." Although it took him 30 years and his entire family fortune, the day finally came when he sent his dog, Einstein, exactly one minute into the future during the first time machine experiment. Local boy, Martin McFly VI, was on hand to video tape the historic occasion. "It was pretty heavy," was all the stunned youth could tell reporters after witnessing the Delorean time machine vanish, leaving twin fire trails on the wet pavement of Twin Pines Mall.
above: Doctor Brown's original sketch of the flux capacitor
below: Marty, in awe of Doc's invention:
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