Working machine

The machine is a machine used by the Martians in the novel War of the Worlds, by H. Wells. In the novel

In the book, the working machine is described in Chapter 2, What We Saw From the Ruins, from the second book, The Land Dominated by the Martians: The first impression of them was to see a metal spider with five articulated legs and very agile, and with a great number of levers, bars and tentacles ... Despite its metallic brilliance its movements were so fast, complex and perfect, that at first I did not take it for a machine. The machines of war could not be compared to the one he was looking at now despite being extraordinarily coordinated in all his movements. People who have never seen these structures are unaware of the quality of life they possessed because it can only be guided by the vain efforts of the drafters and the imperfect descriptions of eyewitnesses, such as myself. I thought it was a machine, it looked more like a crab with a shiny integument, while the Martian who wielded it with its delicate tentacles looked like an analogy to the brain portion of the crab.

The working machine in the novel is used by the Martians to assemble, disassemble, fix, and do more things with machinery. Like the war machine, it is handled by a Martian. The only Martian machine that controls itself is the excavator machine (The War of the Worlds). In other versions

In none of the films of War of the Worlds appears the working machine, except the version of Pendragon Pictures.

Musical de Jeff Wayne

In Jeff Wayne's musical, the machine appears as a white machine, with green "eyes" and six articulated legs and very agile (in the book have five), and many levers, bars, and mechanical arms. In this version, this machine is responsible for capturing humans to drain their blood, not as in the book, where the war machine is in charge of capturing humans and give them to work to drain their blood.

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