Gears

The point of this puzzle is to get the three gears spinning in the proper directions using the provided fixed gears, repositionable gears, and gear attachment points:

<spoiler> NOTE: if the picture are not displaying for you, they key is to put two small gears side by side on the far right to connect up the right most clock gear...

Then, we use an image from the Las Vegas live event's movie:

1866-1946 and wikipedia:H.G. Wells. This gives us the answer: time travel </spoiler>