The Time Keeper is an extraordinary device created by the inventor, Sibyl Weir sometime in the mid 19th century.
Sybil was a child prodigy, a bit like her close friend Ada Lovelace, and was a woman for whom the tightened corset of her times could not keep her genius constrained. From the moment she could talk, she showed a remarkable gift for mathematics and science, effortlessly solving equations and debating theoretical physics with her embattled tutors.
Her family, utterly devoid of ideas of what to do with her, put her under the guardianship of famed inventor, the aristocrat Sir Horatio Maudlin, with hopes that marriage might be an option.
Sybil, at first was ecstatic, to be working for such an esteemed man of science. She quickly feel for his charms, and for a while they were lovers. However, it was not long before she realised that he was a fraud and for all his pomp and bluster, was only a few pennies from the poor house. However, when she comes across a rare substance as part of his imperial looting of a Peruvian jungle, she came to invent a time-machine. This she called “The Time Keeper”. But it didn’t take long for Sir Horatio to see its value in pursuing his own despicable ambitions – to steal some of the great works of antiquity and replenish his fortunes.
A replica of The Time Keeper has now been passed to you in the hopes that you can help thwart Sir Horatio Maudlin’s dastardly plans.