I had mentioned a few years ago: The last official Nikola Tesla lab ran the risk of disappearing. The workplace of this extraordinary inventor, physicist and engineer was going to be demolished soon arose a buyer interested in the land where you are. However, in the Web community, channeled through Matthew Inman, head of the popular site The Oatmeal, has responded to the challenge: Collect a total of $ 850,000 to save the facility and eventually turn them into a museum dedicated to Nikola Tesla.
The story goes that the last lab of Nikola Tesla is located in the small town of Shoreham, in the state of New York. That was the place that started building the Wardenclyffe Tower, which among its most important goals was to serve as a proof of concept for the transmission of free electricity wirelessly. However, the tower never went into operation, and was demolished in 1917 for reasons of national security (it was believed that German spies could use the tower). Eventually, the facilities under control of AGFA ended, he decided to put on sale in 2009, for a total of nearly $ 1.6 million. AGFA said he could deliver completely clean land, therefore, the legacy he left Tesla in that place was at risk.
Now, a nonprofit organization called "Tesla Science Center" seeks to preserve this place. Apparently it has submitted a bid for the land use of old laboratory Tesla commercial purposes, but the huge legion of fans who gathered Tesla from the strong defense of Matthew Inman inventor who made via its website The Oatmeal , had something to say about it. In summary, it should raise a total of $ 850,000 to save the lab. Given the interest of preserving the place and turn it into a museum, the state of New York said that it would conduct an "egalitarian delivery" of money not exceeding $ 850,000. The project, known as "Let's Build a Tesla Museum Goddamn" was published on the website IndieGoGo, with the hope that the missing money was collected ...
Needed ... and only five days. Among the donations from the public and the amount awarded by the state of New York, the facilities have been saved. But what about the museum itself? For that, you have to wait a little longer. The $ 1.7 million only enough to buy the property and remove it from the market, not to perform restorations and construction would require a museum of that kind. But as we said entry IndieGoGo, the emphasis was put facilities in the right hands. The project continues to receive money: The latest update reveals a total of $ 914,000, and all the surplus will go to the restoration process. Among the rewards were two donations of $ 33,333, which basically buy an article dedicated to The Oatmeal (a website that generates about 30 million pageviews on average), and even the name of Elon Musk (a founder of Tesla Motors and PayPal) appeared among taxpayers. "Tesla Science Center" will need more funds to build the museum, but if the enthusiasm is maintained, it will be a matter of time.
