Time Tank

From Vexpedia, The Guide to Time Travel

The Time Tank is a cotton & hemp armless sweater that has time shifting properties. It's initial concept and design was created by William Trainee Jnr, whilst the construction was handled by Victorian luminary, Prof. Bartholomew Strangeways.

Invention

The Time Tank was invented in 1850 by sewing enthusiast William Trainee Jnr. Trainee was at the time working alongside Dr Cuthbert D Holloway and Prof. Bartholomew Strangeways as their intern when he voiced his idea at the daily tea ceremony. The idea was applauded by the pair and Strangeways went about calculating how the first Time Tank could work. Trainee worked on the cut patterns and seam styles as well as deciding what kind of material he would use for the finished garment. Strangeways used his Interstellar Time Wave Modulator technology with some slight adjustments and went about reducing the size of these modulators so that they could be dispersed in a water solution. The finished Time Tank was then washed in this solution binding the modulators to the threads of the fabric. Operation was achieved by rubbing an air filled balloon against the fabric of the Time Tank therefore creating a static charge and intiating the modified Time Wave Modulators.

Properties

The Time Tank was able to shift the perception of the wearer backward in time whilst still being able to see the current time progressing. This effect would basically generate trails around anything that moved, mostly causing the user to feel extremely ill and vomit. According to Cuthbert D Holloway's journals, Strangeways and Trainee only made two Time Tanks, which where later destroyed. Strangeways explains that if two Time Tanks are worn by people in the same vicinity and happen to see each other, the Time Tank's appearance on the opposing wearer would start to glow intensely. This glowing would increase gradually creating a ferocious heat that would project kaleidoscopic patterns towards the other wearer. Strangeways feared that if the two wearers stayed pointing at each other for too long, some kind of 'Time Abbess' would be created, sucking all kinds of matter into its core. For this reason Strangeways decided that the Time Tank was too dangerous to leave in existence and so destroyed both of them only a few months after they where completed.

Fashion

Some time after its creation the Time Tank popped up in UK seventies culture, renamed the Tank Top or Langdon in America it was a huge fashion accessories of the day. Luckily these versions of the Time Tank did not have modulators in the fabric and could be worn by people relatively safely.