The Time Machine series of science fiction stories for young adults, published between 1959 and 1989 in Boys' Life magazine, featured a group of American Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine.

The Polaris Patrol visited the future and the past, sometimes recruiting new Scouts.

The stories used the time machine as a framework for history lessons, but also explored the consequences of having a time machine (as well as the various technologies the boys who discovered it obtain from the future).

[2] The first story in the series was "The Day We Explored the Future", appearing in the December 1959 Boys' Life on page 18.

All the Time Machine stories are available from Google Books in its collection of Boys' Life issues.