When Barry Allen made his first appearance in 1956, he ushered in a new age of comic books called the Silver Age. As things like the Space Race were occurring in America, comic book heroes suddenly consisted of scientists, astronauts, and mathematicians, using their powers to not only help the innocent but to further mankind into a brighter future.
The Flash was one of the main titles to showcase Barry Allen's intelligence and ingenuity just as much as his speed and the forensic scientist was always thinking through his problems and finding scientific solutions to achieve his goals. One of his most famous creations was the Cosmic treadmill, which allowed The Flash to travel through time. But how much do you actually know about the unique time machine?
9 First Appearance: The Flash 125
The cosmic treadmill first appeared in The Flash 125 in 1961. In the story "The Conquerors of Time", Barry shows Wally the device and informs him how he created the machine to help pinpoint his vibrations and allow him to travel through time much easier.
While in the year 2287, he encounters a group of time-traveling invaders who have enslaved Earth using a hive in the prehistoric era. Barry uses the machine to travel to the future, and Wally uses it to travel to the past to destroy the hive. .
It seems to be pretty simple, Barry runs super fast on it until he breaks the time stream and goes where he wants, but it's actually a lot more complicated than that. The treadmill is powered by cosmic rays and using a ray clock, it coordinates the radioactive pulses when it is used to show where the user would go. When the treadmill moves forward, it releases positive radiation and propels the user into the future.
When the treadmill goes backward, it releases negative radiation, which ejects the user into the past. Once in a different era, the speedster had to speed up their vibrations to match that era, and when they slowed down to normal they returned home.
8 Connection To Professor Zoom
In the Cosmic Treadmill's second appearance, an atomic clock in a time vault had altered into an atomic bomb, and Barry raced into the future to stop it. When he appeared in the 25th century, he met the man who would become his greatest enemy, Professor Zoom. Obsessed with The Flash, after recreating his accident, he used The Flash suit that was in the vault and inverted the color pattern, as he wanted to represent the opposite of what The Flash stood for. This was the first appearance of the Reverse-Flash.
After Barry's death in Crisis on Infinite Earths, the treadmill was placed in The Flash museum, which proved to be a very bad idea. Reverse Flash now had access to a time machine in the 25th century, and he used it, again and again, to torment the past Flashes until his frequent trips eventually caused him to evolve and be able to travel through time without the need of the treadmill.
7 It Gave Zoom His Powers
Hunter Zolomon was a friend of Wally's who served on the Keystone City police department. After being paralyzed as a result of an attack from Grodd, Hunter begged Wally to travel back in time and prevent the event from happening, and Wally refused, saying messing with time was too dangerous.
Hunter decided to take it upon himself, broke into The Flash museum, and tried to use the Cosmic Treadmill himself. The machine exploded, and Hunter awoke in a hospital. He could use his legs, but also gained the ability to manipulate time around him, giving him the powers of The Flash and more.
6 You Don’t Need To Be A Speedster To Use It
While most of their races end as ties, Flash has proven time and time again that he easily outraces Superman, to the point where it shouldn't even be a debate anymore. While The Flash gains his speed from the Speed Force, Superman gets his, like all of his other powers, from the sun.
This means Superman, and other characters with super speed, aren't actually "speedsters". Regardless of where you get it from, if you reach a certain speed on the Cosmic Treadmill, could anyone use it? According to Action Comics 992, the answer is yes. Superman needed to travel back to the destruction of Krypton, and while he was unsure if it would actually work, he was successful in using the Cosmic Treadmill to travel through time.
5 A Duplicate Was Created In Our World
In one of the most meta-issues of The Flash ever, Barry Allen accidentally traveled to our world. Or at least, a world exactly like ours. While fighting an alien, Barry wakes up on a parallel world, and when a little kid addresses him by his full name and asks him about his secret identity, he realizes in this world he's nothing more than a comic book character.
Naturally, his first stop is at DC Comics headquarters, where he meets legendary editor Julius "Julie" Schwartz. After showing that he is indeed the actual Flash, he hands Julie a list of supplies for him to build a new cosmic treadmill. Barry builds the machine at superspeed and returns to Earth-1.
4 It Can Transport More Than One Person At A Time
During the Rogue War event, Zoom forced Wally to use the treadmill to travel back to their first battle, forcing him to revisit the most tragic day in his life, the miscarriage of his twins. During The Button crossover, Barry and Batman use it and end up in the Flashpoint world.
Two people are impressive, but what about an entire cruise ship? In The Flash 269, Barry brings the cosmic treadmill onto a ship and begins preparing it to travel into the past. By vibrating at a speed much higher than normal, Barry is able to cause the entire ship and all its passengers to vibrate with him so they all travel into the past.
3 It Can Track Radiation
At the beginning of Rebirth, fans were ecstatic to see the return of Wally West, but the inclusion of the Comedian's pin from Watchmen coming along for the ride showed that there was much more where that came from. During The Button crossover, Reverse-Flash travels into the future and meets Doctor Manhattan, who kills him. Barry and Bruce are determined to find the culprit, and Barry makes a few changes to the Cosmic Treadmill.
Now being able to track the radiation coming off the Button, the pair use the treadmill to go into the time stream, coming across multiple timelines and erased histories until they appear back in the timeline seemingly destroyed at the end of Flashpoint.
2 It Used To Be Able To Travel To Other Earths
Through the multiverse, DC had figured out a way to bring their Golden Age and Silver Age heroes together without worrying about continuity or consequences. In "Flash of Two Worlds", Barry Allen meets Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash who Barry thought was nothing more than a comic book character.
Using the Cosmic Treadmill, Barry taught himself how to control his vibrations to those on alternate Earths, and used this new ability to visit Jay on Earth 2 dozens of times after. During the Crisis on Infinite Earth's events, Wally uses the treadmill to check on Earth 2 after the Anti-Monitor is defeated, but he is unfortunately greeted with nothing but a black void.
1 It’s Technology Works Outside Of On A Treadmill
During the DC: Metal event, fans were introduced to several evil versions of Bruce Wayne from across the multiverse. One of these variations was the Red Death, a speedster created by the combined bodies of Batman and The Flash.
Using the weapons of the Rogues, Batman manages to take Barry down, and the hero wakes up strapped to the front of the Batmobile. Batman reveals that he used the technology of the Cosmic Treadmill and applied it to the engine of the Batmobile, speeding through the time stream until the car crashed into the Speed Force, combining the two into one.
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