How a Librarian, a Cartoonist and the Internet Saved a Piece of History—Nikola Tesla’s Lab

Posted by Kendall Harmon

The only remaining laboratory of one of the greatest American inventors may soon be purchased so that it can be turned into a museum, thanks to an Internet campaign that raised nearly a million dollars in about a week.

The lab was called Wardenclyffe, and it was built by Nikola Tesla, a wizard of electrical engineering whose power systems lit up the Chicago World's Fair in 1893 and harnessed the mighty Niagara Falls.

"He is the developer of the alternating current system of electrical transmission that we use throughout the world today," says Jane Alcorn, president of a nonprofit group called The Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, which wants to buy the site and preserve the lab by making it a museum.

Please if you can listen to (but if you can't read) it all. Consider also following the links if you have time, they are great fun.

Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Blogging & the Internet • --Social Networking • History • Science & Technology • * International News & Commentary • America/U.S.A.

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