Morpork46
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Good morning,
I'm looking for the title and, if possible, the author’s name of a Scifi-Story:
Someone (a professor?) invented a comparatively small time machine. He can send not too big things to the past. So he and his students go to Stonehenge and send a camera back in time hoping they can learn how Stonehenge became as it is today. After the camera has vanished there stays a golden (?) glow, a kind of halo or afterimage. When the camera comes back after the first attempt they see Stonehenge as it is today, only a little less worn.
So they send the camera some hundred years further back in time. This time they find only a large, empty field on the photo.
So they choose a time right between the first tests.
When the camera is back, they see a crowd of people looking a something obviously behind the camera. So they turn the camera round for a second, complementary photo and send it back again. When the camera has returned they find an almost identical crowd of people as before. Then they realize: It was the glow of the arriving and vanishing of the camera what was the origin of building Stonehenge.
Can anyone tell, what the name of the story is?
Thank you.
On the “List of time travel works of fiction” in Wikipedia I couldn’t find the story.
I thought of Fredric Brown as author, but this seems to be incorrect.
I'm looking for the title and, if possible, the author’s name of a Scifi-Story:
Someone (a professor?) invented a comparatively small time machine. He can send not too big things to the past. So he and his students go to Stonehenge and send a camera back in time hoping they can learn how Stonehenge became as it is today. After the camera has vanished there stays a golden (?) glow, a kind of halo or afterimage. When the camera comes back after the first attempt they see Stonehenge as it is today, only a little less worn.
So they send the camera some hundred years further back in time. This time they find only a large, empty field on the photo.
So they choose a time right between the first tests.
When the camera is back, they see a crowd of people looking a something obviously behind the camera. So they turn the camera round for a second, complementary photo and send it back again. When the camera has returned they find an almost identical crowd of people as before. Then they realize: It was the glow of the arriving and vanishing of the camera what was the origin of building Stonehenge.
Can anyone tell, what the name of the story is?
Thank you.
On the “List of time travel works of fiction” in Wikipedia I couldn’t find the story.
I thought of Fredric Brown as author, but this seems to be incorrect.
