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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (188472)	12/17/2009 12:00:15 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 225578

Boy, you learn something new every day. A Faraday cage, or Faraday shield, is an enclosure formed by conducting material or by a mesh of such material. Such an enclosure blocks out external static electric fields. Faraday cages are named after the English scientist Michael Faraday, who invented them in 1836.[1] A Faraday cage's operation depends on the fact that an external static electrical field will cause the electrical charges within the cage's conducting material to redistribute themselves so as to cancel the field's effects in the cage's interior. This phenomenon is used, for example, to protect electronic equipment from lightning strikes and other electrostatic discharges. Faraday cage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (17 December 2009) en.wikipedia.org