A fire-damaged building, the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, with a brick and metal tower still standing
Fire damaged the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe, a former laboratory of inventor Nikola Tesla.
  • A serious fire broke out at the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.
  • The facility is famed inventor Nikola Tesla's only laboratory still in existence.
  • The nonprofit that owns it is asking for donations to help repair the damage.

Just months after a groundbreaking ceremony for a $20-million restoration project, a fire broke out at the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe.