Online fundraiser recharges Tesla lab buy
Photo credit: Nikola Tesla Museum; Handout | In the past 72 hours, an astonishing $511,000 has been donated to the Shoreham group trying to buy renowned scientist Nikola Tesla’s lab Wardenclyffe to build a museum and research center. Thanks to the support of popular Internet cartoonist Matthew Inman, pictured here, thousands of Tesla fans/science aficionados have donated to Friends of Wardenclyffe.
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Behold the power of the Internet.
A stalled campaign to buy scientist Nikola Tesla's former laboratory Wardenclyffe, tucked away on Route 25A in Shoreham, has suddenly kicked into high gear.
On Wednesday, the popular Internet cartoonist Matthew Inman, who runs The Oatmeal blog, posted about the struggles of the Shoreham nonprofit Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, which has spent...
