The narrator and Professor Gibberne test the professor’s potion that will speed up their metabolisms by a factor of a thousand or more.
—Michael Main
I sat down. “Give me the potion,” I said. “If the worst comes to the worst it will save having my hair cut, and that I think is one of the most hateful duties of a civilized man. How do you take the mixture?”

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  1. “The New Accelerator” by H. G. Wells, Strand Magazine, December 1901.
  2. audio reading.
    “The New Accelerator” by H. G. Wells, in Short Science Fiction Collection, 015, coordinated by Gregg Margarite (Librivox, May 2009[/d) [audio] [Audio collection accessed at https://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-015/ on 8 April 2022.].
  3. audio reading.
    “The New Accelerator” by H. G. Wells, in Short Science Fiction Collection, 046, coordinated by Amy Gramour (Librivox, August 2012[/d) [audio] [Audio collection accessed at https://librivox.org/short-science-fiction-collection-046-by/ on 8 April 2022.].
  4. audio reading.
    “The New Accelerator” by H. G. Wells (Astorg Audio, February 2019).
  5. “Versnelling” [Speed-up] by H. G. Wells, in Sprong in de Toekomst, edited by A. de Bruijn A. van der Hoek (Andries Blitz, 1957).
  6. “De nieuwe versneller” [The new accelerator] by H. G. Wells, in Het ei van kristal: acht verhalen en een droom (Bruna, 1980).
  7. “Der neue Akzelerator” [The new accelerator], as by Herbert George Wells, in Der Apfel vom Baum der Erkenntnis (Zsolnay, 1930).
  8. “Der neue Beschleuniger” [The new accelerator] by H. G. Wells, in Stern der Vernichtung (Heyne, May 1965).
  9. alternative title of [_Der neue Akzelerator_] (1930).
    “Der neue Beschleuniger” [The new accelerator], as by Herbert George Wells, in Das Kristallei (veclam Leipzig, 1979).
  10. canonical byline for [_Der neue Akzelerator_] (1930).
    “Der neue Akzelerator” [The new accelerator] by H. G. Wells, in Das Kristall-Ei (Zsolnay, September 1979).
  11. alternative byline for [_Der neue Beschleuniger_] (1964) .
    “Der neue Beschleuniger” [The new accelerator] by H. G. Wells, in Von Wells bis Stapledon, edited by James Gunn (Heyne, September 1988).
  12. “新加速剤” [New accelerator], as by H・G・ウエルズ, in Ｈ・Ｇ・ウェルズ短篇集 I: 来たるべき世界の物語 ( 早川書房, September 1961).
  13. “Noul accelerator” [New accelerator] by H. G. Wells, in Povestiri (ESPLA, 1959).
  14. “El nuevo acelerador” [The new accelerator] by H. G. Wells, in El gabinete de los delirios, no editor credited (Valdemar, January 2017).