Backers have launched a campaign to create a museum for inventor Nikola Tesla . Tesla , `` the father of the electric age , '' had a laboratory in New York before going broke . Creator of `` The Oatmeal , '' Matthew Inman , has raised $ 750,000 via IndieGoGo . He is hoping to raise another $1 million by March 31.
Backers have launched a campaign to create a museum for inventor Nikola Tesla . Tesla , `` the father of the electric age , '' had a laboratory in New York before going broke . Creator of `` The Oatmeal , '' Matthew Inman , has raised $ 750,000 via IndieGoGo . Tesla , who died in 1943 , foresaw wireless communication and clean energy .