(CNN) -- Through some highly successful crowdfunding and skillful negotiation, the last remaining laboratory of futurist inventor Nikola Tesla is now in the hands of a nonprofit group that wants to preserve the site and make it a museum honoring "the father of the electric age." The Tesla Science Center announced that it's completed the purchase of the building and land of Wardenclyffe Tower in Shoreham, New York, after trying for more than 18 years. The original asking price was $1.6 million, but the deal closed for $850,000. Last year, the nonprofit made a plea on the Internet for donors. Tesla fan Matthew Inman, creator of the Web cartoon "The Oatmeal," started an IndieGoGo crowdfunding effort irreverently titled "Let's Build A Goddamn Tesla Museum."
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Nonprofit group has purchased former lab of inventor Nikola Tesla
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After years, purchase was aided by drive by "The Oatmeal" creator Matthew Inman
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Group seeks to turn the ground-breaker's former lab into a science museum
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Inman promises Tesla coil-fried sandwiches at upcoming fundraiser
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