At the dawn of the 20th century, Nikola Tesla wanted to save the world from fuel dependency. Now, an Internet cartoonist wants to save Tesla's last remaining laboratory as a tribute to the futurist inventor. The structure, a 94-by-94-foot building, was the location where Tesla hoped to develop wireless communications and clean, free energy for everyone in the early 1900s. He moved his operation to the Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, in 1902 -- so named because of a 187-foot tower rising from the ground (as well as being sunk 120 feet below it) that was to be one of the great transmitters for his wireless energy dream.
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Backers have launched a campaign to create a museum for inventor Nikola Tesla
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Tesla, "the father of the electric age," had a laboratory in New York before going broke
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Creator of "The Oatmeal," Matthew Inman, has raised $750,000 via IndieGoGo
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Tesla, who died in 1943, foresaw wireless communication and clean energy
Alcorn said the money raised by the @placeholder campaign would just purchase the property and facility, not finance the cleanup or restoration of the building into a museum.