The Oatmeal, Nikola Tesla, and Geek Chic Rhetoric

In the last two weeks Matthew Inman’s crowd-funding campaign “Let’s Build a Goddamn Tesla Museum” raised over $1,148,0000 to preserve Wardenclyffe (1901-1917), the 200-acre site seventy miles east of New York City where the scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla built a tower to wirelessly transmit electric power across the Atlantic. Tesla’s plans for a “Worldwide … Continue reading