He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it.
The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and who invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it neither absorbs nor reflects light. Originally serialised in Pearson's Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year.
The Invisible Man is a science fiction novel by H.