Remember the entire Tesla vs Edison thing a couple of months back?
Shortly after that The Oatmeal started a fund on IndieGogo to help buy Tesla’s old workshop in Shoreham, New York – the Wardenclyffe tower and surrounding land.
Earlier this evening they announced that they’d signed the paperwork for the deal:
It's official: we just bought a goddamn Tesla museum http://t.co/T5Fat21O
— The Oatmeal (@Oatmeal) October 8, 2012
Full story over on the New York Times.
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