Preserving Teslas Wardenclyf

[Keith Davis]

You might like this:

http://wheredidthetowersgo.com/

Remember the description in AtD of the destruction of the tower?

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:34 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://boingboing.net/2012/01/03/preserving-teslas-wardenclyf.html
>
> Spider Robinson writes in with an account of a visit to Wardenclyffe,
> Nikola Tesla's facility at Shoreham, NY, near the north shore of Long
> Island: "I stood, gobsmacked, within a couple of hundred meters of the
> base of the tower with which, some of us believe, Tesla accidentally
> caused the Tunguska Event. The same tower whose admitted purpose was
> to beam free electricity to the entire world. I wanted, badly, to get
> closer, to climb the barbed wire fence (at 63!) and stand at the base
> of that tower of power. But I didn't dare. Today it's a hazardous
> waste Superfund Cleanup Site, thanks to its most recent owners
> Peerless Photo Products and the Agfa Corporation, who both polluted it
> with photographic chemicals. A group called Tesla Wardenclyffe Project
> (and I've heard there are other groups, too) is trying to honour and
> preserve Tesla's memory--get the site cleaned up, get it declared a
> historical landmark, somehow find the money to buy it, maybe turn it
> into a Tesla museum and scientific tourist attraction--and they could
> use a shout-out."
>



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