Elon Musk promises $1 million for Tesla museum

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On Nikola Tesla's 158th birthday, it was the effort to build a museum in the influential scientist's honor that got the gift.

Elon Musk, the magnate and inventor behind electric-car company Tesla Motors, has pledged $1 million to the Tesla Science Center in Shoreham, New York, on the site of Wardenclyffe, Tesla's only remaining laboratory.

"Elon Musk: from the deepest wells of my geeky little heart: thank you," Inman wrote. "This is amazing news. And it's Nikola Tesla's 158th birthday. Happy Nikola Tesla Day."Born in 1856, Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American engineer and inventor who helped pioneer the use of electricity, among other achievements. At Wardenclyffe, Tesla worked on developing wireless communications, more than 100 years before anyone would hold a smartphone, and methods for delivering clean, free energy.

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He's big Tesla fan, hence the name of his car company. Tesla is responsible for so much, and gets so little public and educational acknowledgement. Sad.

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Elon Musk and Nikola Tesla, pretty much the two men I admire most in the history of the earth.

Guess it is a fair price for using his name for the electric car company anyway :-D

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He's big Tesla fan, hence the name of his car company. Tesla is responsible for so much, and gets so little public and educational acknowledgement. Sad.

 

I think that's changing quite a lot these days.  More and more people are becoming aware of the things he did, thanks to lots of documentary programmes about him.