When Wade magnifies a picture of the Electrostatic Illuminator, he says it had been set to one hundred years; the picture shows that it had been set for 52,560,000 minutes, which is the number of minutes in 36,500 days. Yet before, Dr. Demenz had set it to go off in one minute by setting the timer to 60 *seconds*. Also, at the climax, the timer was counting down by seconds, not minutes.