The Oatmeal’s latest crusade: Save the Tesla Tower. Nikola Tesla means a lot to quite a few Internet nerds, perhaps to no one more than Matt Inman, creator of The Oatmeal, the best damn website on the web.* Ergo, as Inman revealed exclusively to Forbes reporter Greg Voakes today, he will be rallying his Internet army to save Wardenclyffe Tower, Tesla’s incomplete masterpiece intended for trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. The tower, on which construction began in 1901 in Shoreham, New York, has since been demolished; but the 16 acres it was built on and its foundation are now on the market for $1.6 million.
Inman and others in his camp (including the Tesla Science Center and at least one state government) say the company currently intending to purchase the tower site will raze it and turn it into a retail space. Inman is now using IndieGoGo to raise the funds to buy and save the iconic and historic site. “Blind, faint-hearted, doubting world!” As of this writing, the fundraiser has gathered $40,000 toward the purchase of the land. The Oatmeal's Latest Fundraiser To Save The Tesla Tower. Elon Musk of Tesla Motors pledges donation towards 'The Oatmeal' Tesla museum campaign. The Oatmeal writer Matthew Inman has just gotten a high-profile supporter for his campaign to buy Nikola Tesla's laboratory: space and internet tycoon Elon Musk.
Jalopnik reports that they put Inman in touch with Musk, who said Tesla was a personal hero and pledged to make an online donation. Musk helped found PayPal and later SpaceX; more appropriately, he also co-founded electric car company Tesla Motors. Inman initially asked if Tesla Motors itself might make a donation, but Musk said a personal one would be more feasible. Inman hopes to raise $850,000 to help the Tesla Science Center, which wants to use the laboratory as a museum but must outbid a rival developer that apparently plans to turn it into a retail center.
Online group fighting to save pioneering scientist Nikola Tesla’s Long Island lab. YouTube Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower still stands on the side of Long Island’s Rt. 25A. Wardenclyffe Tower could become a testament to the pioneering work of scientist Nikola Tesla, or it could become a store. A nonprofit organization is fighting to make sure it’s the former. Tesla hoped the tower at the Shoreham, L.I., lab would wirelessly provide electric power to the entire world. He lost funding for the ambitious project in 1917 and the land was sold. The property is now on sale for $1.6 million, and Friends of Science East, Inc. is trying to raise half the price online. The group says it has a matching grant from New York State, and will turn the former lab into a Nikola Tesla Museum if it can buy the land. However, another company has made an offer to buy the property and turn it into a retail space – or tear it down. Inman told Forbes that Tesla is an “unsung hero.”
Inman said the $850,000 fundraising goal will only secure the property, not build the museum. Taiteilijan ja tiedeseuran verkkokampanja vauhdittaa Nikola Teslan laboratorion korjausta. Liki 20 vuotta hautunut idea korjata tiedemies Nikola Teslan rappeutunut laboratorio on saanut pontta verkkokampanjasta. Yhdysvaltalainen sarjakuvataiteilija ja paikallinen tiedeseura yhdistivät voimansa. Tuloksena oli miljoona dollaria lahjoituksia viikossa. Yli sata vuotta vanha Wardenclyffen laboratorio sijaitsee Long Islandilla runsaan sadan kilometrin päässä New Yorkista. Tesla työskenteli siellä noin 15 vuoden ajan 1900-luvun alussa. Verkossa suosittuja sarjakuvia julkaiseva Matthew Inman nosti museoidean esille blogissaan. Tesla olisi varmaan hyvin tyytyväinen, jos tietäisi näin monien ihmisten ihailevan häntä - Tesla olisi varmaan hyvin tyytyväinen, jos tietäisi näin monien ihmisten ihailevan häntä, Matthew Inman on kuvaillut.
Yksi lahjoittajista on longislandilainen elokuvaohjaaja Joe Sikorski. - Ihmiset eivät ymmärrä paikan historiallista merkitystä. Kiinteistöä on myymässä Agfa-konserni, joka on vahvistanut hinnaksi 1,6 miljoonaa dollaria. Save Tesla’s lab! Nikola Tesla museum campaign earns $500,000 online in two days | Science. The development of a museum dedicated to the life and works Nikola Tesla has moved one step closer after an online campaign raised more than $500,000 in 48 hours.
The fundraising effort, called "Let's build a goddamn Tesla museum", was devised by web comic The Oatmeal on behalf of the Tesla Science Center. It is hoping is hoping to raise $850,000 from its appeal on the money-raising website Indiegogo. The money would allow for the redevelopment of Tesla's Wardenclyffe laboratory in Shoreham, New York, where the cult scientist intended to develop a tower that would provide free wireless electricity across the world.
The proposed $850,000 would be matched by funding from the state of New York, reaching the $1.6m asking price for the site with something to spare and putting the Wardenclyffe "into the right hands so it can eventually be renovated into something fitting for one of the greatest inventors of our time", according to Oatmeal's Matthew Inman. Nikola Tesla: The patron saint of geeks? 10 September 2012Last updated at 06:23 ET By Tom de Castella BBC News Magazine Fans have rallied to buy the lab of inventor and electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla to turn it into a museum. But why do so few people appreciate the importance of Tesla's work? Lots of people don't know who Nikola Tesla was. He's less famous than Einstein. He's less famous than Leonardo. He's arguably less famous than Stephen Hawking. Most gallingly for his fans, he's considerably less famous than his arch-rival Thomas Edison.
But his work helped deliver the power for the device on which you are reading this. Mark Twain, whom he later befriended, described his invention as "the most valuable patent since the telephone". Nikola Tesla was increasingly eccentric in his later years Tesla was on the winning side in the War of the Currents - the battle between George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison to establish whether AC or direct current (DC) would be used for electricity transmission.
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