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Hi Cameron,

I'm a University of Bradford (UK) graduate (1975) with a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and have been a member of the IET (formerly the IEE) since my student days. The IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology) is in the UK roughly equivalent to what the IEEE is in the US.  My late professor, Prof. G.N. Patchett had very close links with the Baird Television Company (yes, THAT Baird ie. John Logie - http://www.bairdtelevision.com/) based in Bradford. His work with PAL colour television was clearly heavily contingent on Tesla's & Marconi's prior radio work and of course the Baird company was in competition with the Marconi company for many years. Were the Prof. alive today I'm certain he would be appalled at the prospect of Tesla's legacy once again being ignored not to mention destroyed.

I have been, and remain a lifelong fan of Tesla, believing his ideas to be vastly more beneficial and far-reaching potentially than any of Sir Michael Faraday's own immense achievements. Faraday was consumed more with the detail and research of DC generation & usage whereas Tesla, as has already been stated in this thread was an AC man and enamoured of all that that technology held. I think that the over attention & lauding of Sir Michael Faraday has more than a somewhat xenophobic kink to it (his being English an' all!).

I also believe personally that Tesla's genius has both been grossly misunderstood and much maligned for far too long, with many (then and now) considering him to have been a member of the lunatic fringe over some of his ideas and experiments - such is the price of genius I suppose. At least his phenomenal work has now been partially recognised by the rejection of Marconi's wireless patent in favour of Tesla.

I am disgusted to discover that this building that contained his lab (or one of them) may be destroyed so imminently. I have therefore emailed Robin McGill who is the Chief Executive and Secretary of the IET outlining the situation, suggesting he contact you directly and giving him the details of this website. I trust & hope something appropriate may come of it.

Might I suggest that independently you contact the IEEE since I am sure that they too would be horrified at the thought of such an obviously suitable legacy to Tesla being allowed to be destroyed in such a way. Unfortunately I have no direct contacts in the IEEE myself, but presuming my email gets the attention I hope within the IET, perhaps Robin McGill and/or someone else at the IET will be able to help in that regard. In the meantime to save you having to research them, contact details for the IEEE are:

website: http://www.ieee.org

IEEE Corporate Office
3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10016-5997 USA
Phone: +1 212 419 7900
Fax: +1 212 752 4929

I shall also be Tweeting about this to (I hope) some suitable people to help further. I should also like to thank Christopher Jorgensen (Twitter.com/jackassletters) for highlighting this via Twitter.

Here's to a successful final outcome.

Best regards, Bob Lewis. BTech MIET
http://twitter.com/boblewis

I have personally contacted the senator as well and given my words about saving Wardenclyffe. I am positive that if this building were deemed a historical monument it could be saved. Good luck to us all!

I, too, plan to write to the NY officials on this. I visited the site (well got to peek at it as it was gaurded) last year and would love to see it restored.

My question is - is there any kind of effort to fundraise to buy the place ourselves? I would think that raising 80,000 through donations of famous scientists, university physics departments and Tesla fans would not be an impossible task.

Can anyone point me towards fundraising efforts or share your thoughts?

Thank you,

Carla Companioncarlajean@gmail.com

I just joined this forum today.  Hello everyone.   

Can anyone tell me what has happened to Wardenclyffe since this was posted almost a year ago?  Is the property still for sale?

seriously? They want to zone it for condos? What a waste of a historical piece of history. Please tell me the saved it?

The webmaster / site admin should make some some "Save Wardenclyffe" bumper stickers. Heck i joined just to suggest some stickers that said "Rebuild Wardenclyffe" and then i saw this post.

i can probably have some ordered up if anyone would be interested.