1. Presentation ByT.D.SINGH (Tgt eng.)
T.D. Sing JNV Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh
Email: tdsinghgov@gmail.com

2. Before we proceed—
Can a man become invisible?
This is the story of a scientist who discovers how
to make himself invisible.
Does he use or misuse, His discovery?
T.D. Sing JNV Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh

3. Footprints Without Feet
--H.G.Wells
T.D. Sing JNV Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh

4. About the author:
H.G. WELLS (Herbert George Wells)
BIRTH - September 21, 1866 , Bromley England U K
DEATH : August 13, 1946
In 1895, Wells became an overnight literary sensation with the publication of the novel The
Time Machine. The book was about an English scientist who develops a time travel machine.
He published the The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897) and The War
of the Worlds (1898). The Island of Doctor Moreau told the story of a man who encounters a
scientist conducting the gruesome experiments on animals, creating new species of creatures.
In The Invisible Man, Wells explores the life of another scientist who undergoes a dark
personal transformation after turning himself invisible.
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5. Two boys saw fresh footprints of an invisible man in the streets
of London. These footprints were of a lawless scientist named
Griffin.
He discovered a rare drug, which could make him invisible.
 His landlord disliked him and tried to reject him. In revenge
Griffin set fire to the house. He swallowed drug and removed his
clothes to become invisible. He was a homeless wanderer- until
he happened to step in some mud, and left footprints as he
walked! He escaped easily enough from the boys who followed
the footprints.
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6. He wandered in the streets of London. He faced cold weather
and felt the need of clothes and food. .He slipped inside a big
London store for warmth. He fitted himself out with warm clothes.
soon, with shoes, an overcoat and a wide- brimmed hat, he
became a fully dressed and visible person. In the kitchen of the
restaurant he enjoyed the meal. He fell asleep
on the pile of quilts. He woke up late in the
morning.
The store attendants gave him a chase but he made himself free
by removing his clothes. Then he entered a theatrical company
where he dressed up again and looted some money from the
shopkeeper.
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7.  He wanted to live freely without any disturbance.
So he caught a train to Iping village and hired a room at the inn.
The money of the loot did not last long and he again had to rob a
clergyman of his money.
 After some time Mr. and Mrs. Hall visited his room when they
found the door of the room opened. They found nobody inside.
But the chair and other things in the room become alive. The hat
lying on the bedpost leapt up and dashed itself into the face of the
landlady. Then the bedroom chair became alive and it pushed
the inn keeper and his wife out of the room.
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8.  Mrs. Hall almost fell down the stairs in hysterics. She thought
that it was matter of witchcraft. She was convinced that the room
was haunted by sprits and the stranger had somehow caused
these to enter into her furniture.
 By the time the news of robbery spread and everybody suspected
the scientist. The suspicion grew stronger when he produced ready
cash whereas he had accepted some time before that he had a money.
 The village constable was sent for. Instead of waiting for the
constable Mrs. Hall went to the scientist and asked how he came out
of an empty room and how he entered a locked room. The eccentric
scientist lost his temper when he faced questions from Mrs. Hall.
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9.  He threw off the bandages, spectacles and false nose. This
made his head invisible.
 When the constable, Mr. Jaffers reached there, he saw that he
had to arrest a headless man. He tried to get hold of him but
Griffin outsmarted him by throwing away his clothes again.
 He became invisible and knocked down the constable out of
senses. the people who tried to help the constable received the
blows nowhere. Thus he again escaped from the scene
unnoticed.
T.D. Sing JNV Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh