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Five days ago we posted a link in our Forum to a campaign that was issued in order to raise enough money to purchase Nikola Tesla’s laboratory now up for sale at Wardenclyffe. A non-profit is seeking to raise $850,000 in order to match a grant of the same amount by the State of New York to secure the $1.6 million property and keep it out of the hands of a potential real estate developer who has put in an offer that might erase the site and legacy of a genius whose inventions transformed our world.
The Guardian reported that in the first couple days of the campaign issued by comic creator of The Oatmeal, Matthew Inman, that $500,000 had been raised in the effort. The $1.6 million total price secures the land only, but the hope is to raise even more in order to build a Nikola Tesla Science Center. The latest update for this campaign is positive: the total donated with 40 days remaining has increased to $756,523 due to the massive online fundraising effort.
Please watch the video below for some recent news coverage, then DONATE HERE if you have it in your budget to help save a very important part of the history of technology, and hopefully present a permanent place for the world to learn more about this largely forgotten inventor, his amazing work, and his tragic story as he fell prey to corporate power brokers.
Read other articles and announcements by Activist Post HERE
You can support this activism by voting on Reddit HERE
2012-08-20 19:59:13
Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/08/campaign-to-save-nikola-teslas.html