Oatmeal campaign to build a Tesla museum ends with $1.37M raised — venturebeat.com

The online campaign created to build a museum dedicated to influential inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla ended today with more than $1.37 million raised for the cause. Matthew Inman, creator web comic The Oatmeal, announced in mid-August that he would attempt to raise money to save the location of the Wardenclyffe Tower, a site in Shoreham, N.Y. where Tesla planned for trans-Atlantic wireless power transmission. While the Wardenclyffe Tower has been demolished, the 16-acre site where it once stood will be used for the “Nikola Tesla Science Center.”

Read More