In the Back to the Future trilogy, the DeLorean time machine was the vehicle used by "Doc" Brown, Marty McFly, and Biff Tannen to travel through time in Hill Valley. It was built by Doc from a DeLorean DMC-12 which used various sources of electricity to power the flux capacitor.
The operation of the DeLorean time machine was consistent throughout all three films. The operator sat inside the DeLorean and turned on the time circuits, activating an ...
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In the Back to the Future trilogy, the DeLorean time machine was the vehicle used by "Doc" Brown, Marty McFly, and Biff Tannen to travel through time in Hill Valley. It was built by Doc from a DeLorean DMC-12 which used various sources of electricity to power the flux capacitor.
The operation of the DeLorean time machine was consistent throughout all three films. The operator sat inside the DeLorean and turned on the time circuits, activating an LED display which showed the destination, present, and last-departed dates and times. After entering a target date, the operator accelerated the car to 88 miles per hour (142 km/h) which activated the flux capacitor (see below). As it accelerates, several rails around the body of the car glow blue and a wormhole generator on top of the car makes a wormhole in front of the car. Surrounded by large sparks, the whole car vanishes in a flash of blue light seconds later, leaving twin trails of fire. Observers outside the vehicle see an implosion of...
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