Wells has argued against the authenticity of the Testimonium, stating that the passage is noticeably shorter and more cursory than such notices generally used by Josephus in the Antiquities, and that had it been authentic, it would have included more details and a longer introduction.

Atari eventually obtained a line of credit from Wells Fargo that it used to expand its facilities to house an assembly line.

The term " time machine ", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.

The term " time machine ", coined by Wells, is now universally used to refer to such a vehicle.

Stanley Wells and Michael Dobson point out that Holinshed's Chronicles, which Shakespeare used as a source, mention an Innogen, and that Forman's eyewitness account of the April 1611 performance refers to " Innogen " throughout.

From 1866 until 1890, the Pony Express logo was used by Wells Fargo, which provided secure mail and freight services.

" Wells felt that technological advances such as microfilm could be used towards this end so that " any student, in any part of the world, will be able to sit with his projector in his own study at his or her convenience to examine any book, any document, in an exact replica.

Elizabeth Goudge used Wells as a basis for the fictional cathedral city of Torminster, in her book City of Bells.

Wells has been used as the setting for several films including: The Canterbury Tales ( 1973 ), A Fistful of Fingers ( 1994 ), The Gathering ( 2002 ), The Libertine ( 2005 ), The Golden Age ( 2007 ), and Hot Fuzz ( 2007 ) The cathedral interior stood in for Southwark Cathedral during filming for the Doctor Who episode The Lazarus Experiment.

The New York Times published two positive reviews of the book: Basil Davenport ( 1905 – 1966 ) compared Clarke to Olaf Stapledon, C. S. Lewis, and H. G. Wells — a " very small group of writers who have used science fiction as the vehicle of philosophic ideas.

In the hamlet of Darshill, on the road from Shepton Mallet to Wells, there is a silk drying shed, known locally as a handle house, three walls of which are full of holes to allow the passage of air to aid in the process of drying teasle heads, which were used to raise the nap on cloth in the textile process.

Wells never used starting blocks, until a rule change forced him to do so for the Moscow Olympics.

Shortly afterwards, in an early application of computer graphics, Ulam with collaborators Myron Stein and Mark Wells used MANIAC II at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory to produce pictures of the spiral for numbers up to 65, 000.

The name Finsbury is now most often used of the western part of the district, the home of the former Finsbury Town Hall, Finsbury Estate, Exmouth Market, the Sadler's Wells Theatre, Islington Local History Centre, Islington Museum and City University.

In 1895, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells used time as an additional “ dimension ” in this sense, taking the four-dimensional model of classical physics and interpreting time as a space-like dimension in which humans could travel with the right equipment.

Wells also used the concept of parallel universes as a consequence of time as the fourth dimension in stories like The Wonderful Visit and Men Like Gods, an idea proposed by the astronomer Simon Newcomb, who talked about both time and parallel universes ; " Add a fourth dimension to space, and there is room for an indefinite number of universes, all alongside of each other, as there is for an indefinite number of sheets of paper when we pile them upon each other ".

The Reading Room was used by a large number of famous figures, including notably Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde, Friedrich Hayek, Bram Stoker, Mahatma Gandhi, Rudyard Kipling, George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Lenin, Norbert Elias, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Rimbaud and H. G. Wells.

In the United Kingdom, for example, following wider publicity of fatal accidents on the rail network and at sea, the term is commonly used in reference to corporate manslaughter and to involve a more general discussion about the technological hazards posed by business enterprises ( see Wells: 2001 ).

The most commonly used method to predict clinical probability, the Wells score, is a clinical prediction rule, whose use is complicated by multiple versions being available.

This route was abandoned in 1861 after Texas joined the Confederacy, in favor of stagecoach services established via Fort Laramie and Salt Lake City, a 24 day journey, with Wells Fargo & Co. as the foremost provider ( initially it used the old " Butterfield " name ).

The game used alien creatures inspired by The War of the Worlds ( by H. G. Wells ) because the developers were unable to render the movement of aircraft ; in turn, the aliens replaced human enemies because of moral concerns ( regarding the portrayal of killing humans ) on the part of Taito Corporation.

Wells proposed in 1899 that handaxes were used as missile weapons to hunt prey – an interpretation supported by William H. Calvin.

Written by Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Steven Wells, Andrew Glover, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring and David Quantick, it starred Morris as the overzealous and self-important principal anchor ( for which he used his own full name ).

Wells used this as the basis for his story.

Wells contemplates the ideas of nature versus nurture and questions humanity in books such as The Island of Doctor Moreau.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

One of the stated goals of this Congress, held in Paris, France in 1937, was to discuss ideas and methods for implementing Wells ' ideas of the World Brain.

( debate about Wells ' ideas )

There, he read more of Darwin's work and was influenced by the ideas of science and society in the writings of H. G. Wells.

Despite the popularity of his ideas in some state socialist circles, Wells failed to exert a deeper and more lasting influence because he was unable to concentrate his energies on a direct appeal to intelligentsias who would, ultimately, have to coordinate a Wellsian new world order.

However, despite the popularity and notoriety of his ideas, Wells failed to exert a deeper and more lasting influence because he was unable to concentrate his energies on a direct appeal to intelligentsias who would, ultimately, have to coordinate the Wellsian new world order.

In it, Wells discusses the ideas presented in the book.

Wells ' novel The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) was influenced, as was Burrough ’ s novel, by the ideas of Percival Lowell starting with publication of the book Mars ( 1895 ).

Wells was the elder of three British medical men who formulated evolutionary ideas in the period 1813 – 1819.

European culture was used distinctively in the park and Discoveryland uses the ideas of famed European thinkers and explorers such as Leonardo da Vinci or HG Wells, with Jules Verne featured most prominently.

Journalist Paul Wells highlighted items he thought were missing from the Declaration, saying " The Calgary declaration says nothing about health care, good schools, the return of prosperity, the slow rebirth of a thoughtful Canadian foreign policy, or the possibility of sharing good ideas and ennobling projects with fellow citizens who don't speak the same language but who share the same values.

The Wells ideas and attitudes now strike many readers as dated, and few critics praise its literary quality.

Like many of Wells ’ s works, it is notable for its prophetic ideas, images, and concepts, in this case, the use of the aircraft for the purpose of warfare and the coming of World War I.

Fresco himself cites several theorists and authors for contributing to his ideas, such as Jacques Loeb, who established the Mechanistic Conception of Life ; Edward Bellamy, who wrote the extremely influential book, Looking Backward ; Thorstein Veblen, who influenced the Technocracy movement and Howard Scott, who popularized it ; Alfred Korzybski, who originated General Semantics ; H. G. Wells, and many others .< ref name =" Influences "> A Personal Interview With Jacque Fresco.

" He had thought of using some of this material in a series of articles in the Pall Mall Gazette, until the publisher asked him if he could instead write a serial novel on the same theme ; Wells readily agreed, and was paid £ 100 ( equal to about £ today ) on its publication by Heinemann in 1895.

This theme is one of the earliest in science fiction, demonstrated by H. G. Wells in The War of the Worlds and Doctor Who, where the invasions in the 1960s, 1970s and the 1980s are small scale, and the invasions after the year 2000 are large scale, and also such works as Independence Day.

Both artistes had found a common interest in the War Poets, a theme which was in evidence for Jobson's first album Ballad Of Etiquette and which bore a credit for " Virginia & Josephine " ( Wells ).

The opening theme, called " WKRP In Cincinnati Main Theme ", was composed by Tom Wells, with lyrics by series creator Hugh Wilson, and performed by Steve Carlisle.

On 19 April, that court issued a three-paragraph decision stating that The Wells theme – a " delicate social problem " – did not violate the law unless written in such a way as to make it obscene.

An early example of the theme, H. G. Wells ' The War of the Worlds

Murray Leinster's 1945 novelette " First Contact " established the term " first contact " in science fiction, although the theme had previously appeared in e. g. H. G. Wells ' The Time Machine ( 1895 ), The War of the Worlds ( 1898 ) and The First Men in the Moon ( 1901 ).

Its primary theme, explored in many other stories ( starting with H. G. Wells ' The Time Machine ), is the effect on the present of changing the past.