Saving Nikola Tesla’s Laboratory - Special Report VVH-TV News

Wardenclyffe: Tesla’s Only Remaining Laboratory with Karl Grossman, Chief Investigative Reporter, WVVH-TV News In 1901, Tesla purchased 200 acres on Long Island’s north shore from James Warden. These 200 acres were part of an 1,800 acre potato farm along what is today Route 25A in Shoreham, NY. The site became known as Wardenclyffe, after the former owner. Here, Tesla established what would become his only remaining laboratory building. Here, in Shoreham on Long Island that at the turn into the last century, the great inventor Nikola Tesla built a tower with which he hoped to transmit electric power through the air to anywhere in the world. The purpose of the Wardenclyffe laboratory was the establishment of a wireless telegraphy plant. The prestigious architectural firm of McKin, Mead, and White was contracted to design the laboratory and transmitter tower (187 feet high above ground and 120 feet deep below ground level). Stanford White became the architect for the building.