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Wardenclyffe laboratory

Inventor is available in New York, and the comic creator Matthew Inman wants the Internet to help buy your

The development of a museum dedicated to the life and work of Nikola Tesla has reached another stage after an online campaign has raised over $ 500,000 within 48 hours.

The fundraiser, called "Let's build a Tesla museum damn" was developed by oats web comic on behalf of the Tesla Science Center.

is expected is expected to raise $ 850,000 of its attractiveness to the website IndieGoGo to raise funds.

The money would allow the reconstruction of Tesla Wardenclyffe laboratory Shoreham, New York, where the worship of science intend to develop a tower to provide free worldwide wireless electricity.

$ 850 000

The proposal will be supplemented by funds from the State of New York, reaching a price of $ 1.6 million requesting the page with something to spare and put the Wardenclyffe " in the right hands at that eventually may be renewed in something as befits one of the greatest inventors of our time, "Matthew Inman oatmeal.

Inman became involved after an appeal by the Centre for Science Tesla charity, which hopes to develop a Museum of Science and Technology in the Shoreham site.


In 1917, the 187ft tower on the site that Tesla intended to use electricity to shoot through the Atlantic, was demolished and the site remained vacant until the company was purchased by Peerless picture in 1939. In recent decades the site fell into disrepair, such as pollution of the water repeatedly poured into pits on the site. A cleaning operation has cost the current owner, Belgium-based Agfa Imaging Corporation, tens of millions of dollars. Cleanup was completed in March this year, and the site was sold to 1.6 million.

"They just want to sell and be done with it," said John O'Hara of Corporate Real Estate Services, which handles the sale on behalf of Agfa.

"It was, well, a pain in the neck for them. Has been vandalized, broken into, there are many things that go with maintaining it. Their costs of silver ones. "


O'Hara said Agfa was asked to donate, but were willing "to get something out of it" after having to clean up pollution caused by Peerless Photo Company, Agfa took over in the decade in 1970.



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