Wardenclyffe's tower, built by Tesla, mid-dismantle before it was sold for scrap in 1917.
A fundraiser is underway to save scientist Nikola Tesla's old laboratory, named Wardenclyffe, and to turn the site into a museum. The fundraising is spearheaded by Matthew Inman, creator of the webcomic site The Oatmeal. The property has been embattled for years between its owner, the Agfa Corporation, and the nonprofit organization that wants to save it and enter it in the National Register of Historic Places.
Tesla originally intended for Wardenclyffe to be a vector for trans-Atlantic wireless communications, broadcasting, and wireless power. The site consisted of an (incomplete) 18-story-high transmission tower that topped off a laboratory surrounded by 16 acres of land in Shoreham, Long Island in 1903. By 1917, Tesla had sold the site for $20,000 to pay bills at the Waldorf. That same year, the transmission tower was blown up by the buyers and sold for scrap. Tesla's wireless dreams were never realized.
The site is now owned by the Agfa Corporation, an imaging company that used the land from 1969 to 1992. The site was put up for sale in February 2009, according to the New York Times, but has yet to find a buyer. A nonprofit named the Tesla Wardenclyffe Project Inc. was formed in 1994 seeking to place the site on the National Register of Historic Places. The nonprofit filed for preservation, and inspections showed it met criteria, but the property can't be entered into the registry without a formal nomination from its owner.
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