The power of crowds | Group Tour Magazine Blog
The power of crowds | Group Tour Magazine Blog TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012 Nikola Tesla's lab, Wardenclyffe, as it looked in 1904; more than a century later, the lab will be saved and preserved. The power of crowds This blog examines the true story of how a cartoonist raised $1 in a week to fund a Tesla museum By Amanda Black Did you hear the one about the cartoonist that raised a million dollars for a new museum? It’s not a joke; it’s something that’s really happened — and it only took a week. Matthew Inman, the cartoonist from t heoatmeal.com , has long admired Nikola Tesla, the inventor and one-time rival of Thomas Edison. (Warning: his website is very funny, but it’s not exactly family-friendly.) Like Edison, Tesla worked in a workshop, did amazing things with energy, and earned the title of genius. He was a character in one of my favorite movies: The Prestige , a dark, twisty Christopher Nolan movie, and he was the namesake of Tesla Motors, the innovative ele...