Time Travel in Science Fiction?

In some languages it's more common to build metaphors where the space behind you is the future, and the space in front of you is the past. With that effect, how people who speak those languages design a time machines in science fiction? So are they less likely to be sort of forward facing vehicles like you often see in ou now the the delorium and stuff like that? That's interesting. I know there's at least one time travel story that denan mentions, some early work of literature, in which somebody's hit on the head. It was, of course, mark twain's a a confederate yankee in king arthur's court. But certainly