Oatmeal fundraiser for Tesla museum is a triumph

The Oatmeal's campaign to raise funds to preserve and develop the 16 acre plot in Wardenclyffe, Long Island where Nikola Tesla's lab once stood has concluded successfully. The fundraiser aimed to raise $850,000 and ended up with $1.4 million, with donations from over 100 countries. The money was given to a group called The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, and was used to buy the land from the Agfa Corporation, its erstwhile owner.

With The Oatmeal's help, nonprofit buys property to build a Tesla Museum

(Image: Tesla Science Center)

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http://www.nothinginside.net mindysan33

This is amazingly awesome news!
http://twitter.com/Pen_Bird Phlip

Does this mean we’re going to recover ALL of Tesla’s notes? To publish them, & stash them in the museum?

(Including his, ahem, discussions with Einstein?)
- http://www.nothinginside.net mindysan33
  
  A good question. I wonder what his written work still exists and who has them. Plus, will they be available to the general public and those working on this historical period? Will this museum be an archive as well, in other words.
- http://twitter.com/rmod_inria RMod group @ INRIA
  
  There is already a Tesla museum in Belgrade. It has all his writings and notes. http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en.htm
  
  “In 1951, in accordance with Tesla’s last wish, Mr. Kosanovic transferred all the documents and Tesla’s personal things in Belgrade [...] It possesses several exceptionally valuable collections:
  
  - above 160 000 original documents,
  - above 2000 books and journals,
  - above 1200 historical technical exhibits,
  - above 1500 photographs and photo plates
  - above 1000 plans and drawings.”
Over the River

And I helped. But more important than that is the contributions of Tesla can hopefully inspire others to MAKE wonderful things.
BDiamond

The important question is, of course: “How will Charles Carreon react?”
- http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
  
  “How will Charles Carreon react?”
  With any luck he will gag on his own tongue.
bcsizemo

The next fundraiser should be to get it operational.
gellfex

Congrats! I hope they play nice with the folks who wanted it to make a movie. That’s still a great idea, and surely would be terrific for the museum.
Forrest Hsu

YEESSS!!!
* Nerdgasm*
RedShirt77

I wonder if Tesla Motors gave any money.
- http://twitter.com/webmaster_tlu Thomas Hoyt
  
  The company didn’t. But the owner did.
  - RedShirt77
    
    Cool, I knew I liked that guy. Now if he would make a roadster that was more like 30K I could afford to patronize his business.
http://twitter.com/mr_raccoon Jason

I wonder if all of the sections of the museum will be able to be divided by threes….
https://twitter.com/#!/Shegz Shegz Afolayan

:)
http://twitter.com/matthewfedak matthewfedak

And I hope they move lots of pigeons in there too.When it opens the pigeons will come back.
http://twitter.com/Wolfheinrich Wolfheinrich

Good stuff