Arrivals And The Earliest Departure

I am now noticing accounts of arrivals of temporal vehicles. (See Disappearing Act.)

"A vehicle blinked into his presence..."

-The Shield Of Time, p. 347.

"Cycle and rider appeared..." (p.357)

"Some who had been at Rignano were appearing too." (p. 358)

"Someone appeared."

-Time Patrol, p. 454.

And there was the first disappearance of a time machine. There was a breath of wind, a lamp flame jumped, a candle was blown out:

"...and the little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps, as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory; and it was gone - vanished! Save for the lamp the table was bare."

-HG Wells, The Time Machine (London, 1973), 2, p. 14.

Everyone was silent, then Filby was damned. Time travel by candlelight!

We take all this for granted in fiction by now but machines and people appearing and disappearing like that would be quite a thing.