A man buys an incense burner that causes misfortune if the flame is allowed to burn down.; A poor man resents the wealth of an ancestor until he builds a machine that can transport the money through time and space and he realizes that continental currency is useless to him.; A librarian mistakenly receives a book detailing a factual journey to Mars.; An inventor works upon developing a suspended animation pill but then has a dream which convinces him to abandon the experiment.; The first manned rocket to the moon discovers a robot has already made the trip.; Davy Jones is lonely and so sets out to befriend a group of pirates.