Webb C. Ball’s Railroad Chronometer

Origins
Webb C. Ball was a watchmaker from Ohio when the railroads decided to incorporate signals to know what the time of day was. This was because a train had crashed when an engineer’s watch had stopped working. This accident prompted the railroad business to make sure their new timepieces were extremely accurate. Ball and his company created a railroad chronometer that was widely used in the industry at the time.

Effects
The chronometer allows for a person to control the speed of time over a localized area. They can speed it up, slow it down, and cause time to stop in one moment. The only problem is that for how fast time moves, the person ages at that same rate. So, if you sped time up to where one day would equal ten years, your body would physically age ten years. Reports indicate that Rod Serling once saw this artifact in use, inspiring his Twilight Zone story “A Kind of a Stopwatch”.