Web comic helps fuel donations to Tesla's N.Y. lab

Sunday, August 26, 2012 | 5:22 p.m. CDT

SHOREHAM, N.Y. — A jolt of support from a popular Web cartoonist has re-energized a decades-long effort to restore a decrepit, 110-year-old laboratory once used by Nikola Tesla, a visionary scientist who was a rival of Thomas Edison and imagined a world of free electricity.

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