The Poison Belt annotated

Challenger sends telegrams asking his three partners Edward Malone, Lord John Roxton, and Professor Summerlee to sign up for him at his domestic out of doors London, and instructs every of them to 'deliver oxygen'. During their adventure there, they see human's behavior turn out to be excitable and erratic. On arrival they're ushered right into a sealed room, together with Challenger and his wife. In the direction of his researches into numerous phenomena, Challenger has anticipated that the Earth is entering into a belt of poisonous ether which, primarily based totally on its impact at the humans of Sumatra in advance within side the day, he expects to stifle humanity. Challenger seals them within side the room with cylinders of oxygen, which he (correctly) believes will counter the impact of the ether. After returning to Challenger's house, they find out that the impact of the ether is temporary, and the arena reawakens without an understanding that they have got misplaced any time at all. Eventually Challenger and his partners control to persuade the arena what happened- a mission made less complicated through the remarkable quantity of demise and destruction because of runaway machines and fires that came about whilst the arena became asleep-and humanity is taken aback into putting a better fee on life.