Tesla’s Wardenclyffe lab as it looks today.
I say CROATIAN because Fox News seem to be trying to change the fact of his country of birth with the article entitled “Honoring the legacy of Americanphysicist and engineer Nikola Tesla”.  Why not just say Croatian? – surely American readers will still be interested in reading the article regardless of whether he was born in America or not?

Anyway…here’s the article..
“Earlier this month the purchase of a long-neglected laboratory of the Croatian-born (son of a Serbian Orthodox minister) American physicist/engineer, Nikola Tesla, received funding through a remarkable web-based grassroots campaign that raised $1.37 million within a week.

The average contribution was a mere $47 and gifts came from every part of the US and a total of 100 countries worldwide.

The web-site was run by a comic book writer, Gary Inman, who created The Oatmeal and lives in Seattle, Washington — a long way from the Wardenclyffe lab in Shoreham, Long Island, NY.

In some ways this campaign is reminiscent of the grassroots funding campaign for the election of Barack Obama, which contributed to his election in 2008. On the other hand, unlike President Obama, who could speak eloquently for what he represents, Tesla is no longer with us and there are, no doubt, many different opinions among the donors to the Wardenclyffe purchase about what Tesla represents.

On this 70th anniversary of Tesla’s death at the New Yorker Hotel at age 86, capturing what Tesla represents and the best use of his former laboratory seems like a critical next step, now that a 16 year effort to purchase the property has likely concluded.”