Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe is a 501 (c) 3 not-for-profit corporation in the state of New York, dedicated to saving and restoring Wardenclyffe, and transforming it into a science learning ...

While the tower has since been demolished, Inman and others want the 16-acre site for a museum. The United States doesn’t have a Tesla museum, so a “Nikola Tesla Science Center” sounds like ...

This week, Inman launched a campaign to purchase Tesla’s old laboratory and convert it into a museum in his honor. The lab, known as Wardenclyffe Tower, was built in 1901 on a piece of land in ...

Tesla abandoned Wardenclyffe in 1906 and lost it in foreclosure; the tower was demolished in 1917. Died: Jan. 7, 1943, in New York City SOURCES: brittanica.com, Wikipedia, Tesla Science Center ...

The cheapest personalized bricks are being sold for $125, and $1,200 will get you a four-brick array. The organizers set a goal of raising $200,000 by Nov. 8. But lucky for them, Tesla, though he ...

For his 158th birthday, Nikola Tesla got a day named in his honor and a new science museum with $1 million in funding from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk. Musk, the CEO of electric car company ...

Restoring the tower and Tesla's laboratory are but a fraction of a plan to revamp the entire 16 acres, a project that will cost more than $50 million over the next few years depending on funds.

Tesla sparked the tower up only one time in 1903, shooting enormous bolts of electricity into the air. Then he sold it off along with its environs, called Wardenclyffe, to pay his debts.

Fans of Tesla’s responded, raising more than $1 million in about a week before wrapping up with $1.37 million. The Wardenclyffe Tower was to be where Tesla realized his dream of developing ...

So the campaign created new perks, using Tesla’s love of the number 3 in the amount. “Tesla, for the past year or two on the Internet, has risen as a cult hero to geek people,” Inman said.

All Tesla wanted was another $150,000. Instead, he got nothing and later the tower was sold for scrap. Sikorski and his friends finished Tower to the People on credit cards and a laptop.

Nikola Tesla, a flamboyantly weird, underdog scientist, is a made-to-order Internet hero. With his flashy electrical machinery (artificial lightning!), mystical views, eccentric personal style ...