The Oatmeal, Internet raise $850,000 in six days for Tesla museum

The Oatmeal, Internet raise $850,000 in six days for Tesla museum:
Matthew Inman's fundraiser for a museum dedicated to Nikola Tesla hit its $850,000 goal in less than a week. While the fundraiser never received the corporate sponsorship Inman initially hoped for, it did get two sponsors who pitched in $33,333 each.
A nonprofit group named the Tesla Wardenclyffe Project Inc. had been trying for years to buy Wardenclyffe, the site of one of Tesla's old laboratories, in Shoreham, Long Island. The company that owns the property, the Agfa Corporation, had asked $1.6 million for the 16 acres of land. The state of New York offered to pitch in $850,000 if the nonprofit could come up with that much money.
Inman, a noted Tesla enthusiast, spearheaded a fundraiser on Indiegogo for that $850,000, pointing out that there is no Tesla museum in the United States (though there is one in Belgrade) and claiming that the Afga Corporation had received an offer from another party interested in tearing Tesla's old lab building down and turning it into a "retail establishment." The fundraiser goal was reached in six days, put over the top by $33,333 from an anonymous donor.
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