A Statue of Nikola Tesla in the Silicon Valley

A project in Palo Alto, CA by Northern Imagination
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A life-size statue of Nikola Tesla will be sculpted, lost-wax casted in bronze and placed in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Backers: 722
Average Pledge Per Backer: $176

Funded: $127,260 of $123,000
Dates: May 1st -> Jun 2nd (33 days)
Project By: Northern Imagination
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Latest News

Crowd-funded Nikola Tesla Statue Broadcasts Free Wi-fi, Criticism of Silicon Valley

December 9th - via: motherboard.vice.com
Earlier this year, a satirical animation that depicted Nikola Tesla pitching his inventions to disinterested Silicon Valley venture capitalists went in viral in the tech community. The conceit—a visionary inventor with no obvious way to turn Q1 earnings being unable to hack it in the Facebook age—provided an outlet for the mounting frustration many have with an industry that seems, increasingly, to suffer from greed, short-sightedness, and a lack of creativity. (Read More)

Here's a first look at the Tesla statue in Palo Alto

December 7th - via: venturebeat.com
A statue of famed scientists Nikola Tesla is being unveiled today in Palo Alto after the successful completion of a six-figure Kickstarter campaign. (Read More)

Building Statues for Nikola Tesla and Bob Dylan: Two Kickstarter Campaigns

June 6th - via: openculture.com
In the matter of a month, a group called Northern Imagination raised $127,000 on Kickstarter, the amount needed to fund the building of a statue dedicated to the inventor Nikola Tesla in Silicon Valley. It’s a way of paying tribute to “the person who used his brilliance to advance society” by making “hundreds of significant and groundbreaking inventions in areas of wireless energy, wireless communication, magnetism, radio, x-rays, cosmic rays, radar, robotics, engine-powered aircraft and much more.” (Read More)

The Final Countdown - Will the Tesla Statue go to Mars?

June 1st - via: kickstarter.com
We are in our final few hours of our campaign to inspire creativity and big thinking on the issues of energy and wireless information exchange.  Thanks to you and our other 650+ backers!   We are 70% funded and it is all or nothing so we have a big... (Read More)

Silicon Valley company wants Kickstarter funding to build a Nikola Tesla statue in Silicon Valley

June 1st - via: tweaktown.com
Northern Imagination, a California-based company, have a Kickstarter page setup to get a statue of the famous innovator Nikola Tesla built-in Silicon Valley. Northern Imagination need to raise $123,000 in order to get the statue erected, and at the time of writing they had $80,269 pledged with 35 hours to go. (Read More)

The Tesla Statue project is at 500 backers & in home stretch

May 31st - via: kickstarter.com
THE PROJECT TO BUILD A STATUE OF NIKOLA TESLA IN THE SILICON VALLEY - EMBEDDED WITH FREE Wi-Fi AND A TIME CAPSULE - IS IN THE HOME STRETCH Executives from Google, GRP Partners, Joint Venture Silicon Valley, Imagine K-12, Y Combinator, Norwest Venture... (Read More)

The Tesla Statue will contain a hidden time capsule

May 29th - via: kickstarter.com
Hello nearly 400 backers! Along with the Wi-Fi, we are going to embed a time capsule inside the base of the Tesla Statue featuring predictions for the future of technology, the Silicon Valley and the Planet from some really amazing people:  ALL OF... (Read More)

Front page, Cartoon, Djokovic and Friday meet-up

May 22nd - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you to our 225 backers!  This project is heating up! We've had an amazing last 3 days, raising nearly the same amount of $ we raised in the first 12 days.  We are now over 20% of our goal! We have a long way to go in 11 days but we know we... (Read More)

Nikola Tesla fan Dorrian Porter turns to Kickstarter to place a statue in Silicon Valley

May 17th - via: mercurynews.com
Maybe Bill Hewlett, David Packard or Steve Jobs seem more statue-worthy to you, but entrepreneur Dorrian Porter says Silicon Valley could learn a lot from Nikola Tesla. And he’s working to put up a statue to keep Tesla top of mind. (Read More)

The Tesla Statue will offer a free wifi connection

May 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Backers, We're in the middle of week two of our four week campaign and we have been busy getting some things lined up to tell the world about: You are the first to know that the statue will be the world's first statue to offer free wireless!  We had... (Read More)

Happy hour today

May 9th - via: kickstarter.com
If you happen to be in Palo Alto Friday afternoon from 4-6 pm come by and have a drink / look at the model of the Tesla Statue near its proposed location.  The happy hour will be at Caffe Riacce, right next door.  (I am sorry for the short notice... (Read More)

Thank you!

May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
As our first 35 backers, I want to extend a huge thank you!  Today we enter the first of four weeks of this campaign and Terry and I are going to be working very hard to make it happen.  Thank you for your early support. You can expect to see many... (Read More)

New Kickstarter aims to bring life-sized Nikola Tesla statue to Silicon Valley

May 2nd - via: venturebeat.com
Nikola Tesla gets a lot of love these days — far more than he did when he was inventing all kinds of cool things more than a century ago. A new Kickstarter campaign launched today wants to spread some of that love to Silicon Valley, home to many of the United States’ top entrepreneurs and inventors. Tesla is best known for his contributions to the alternating current (AC) electricity system and predicting many futuristic concepts that would later be realized. (Read More)

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