This is an inside view of the time machine that Clarence Coyote traveled through time in from 02/09/2018 to 02/09/1960, in the story 'Clarence Coyote and Project Courier'.
The glass column in the center with the cobalt bean in the green light, with aqua turquoise energy rings is the machine's energy reactor.
Pics #1 and #2 are when the time machine was still in 2018. Pics #3, #4 and #5 are after Clarence Coyote took his accidental trip into 1960.
Something like that happened to a computer motherboard I had when I accidentally plugged a USB cord into the Firewire port, I guess that's why they called it Firewire.
Something like that happened to a computer motherboard I had when I accidentally plugged a USB cord