Blind Time
by George O. Smith
Oak Tool Works has developed a handy time treatment whereby a portion of any tool can be
sent into the future for a limited time, but its movements during that time must exactly
mirror the movements of the rest of the tool during the current time. Peter Wright is the
insurance adjuster who must examine an accident that the treatment is going to cause at
8pm.
There is that element of wonder, too, you know. Every man in the place knows that someone
is going to get clipped with that crane.
“Blind Time” by George O. Smith, Astounding, September 1946.