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Way back in the 1830s, Joseph Faraday created what today could be considered a cruel and unusual torture device. Faraday, an English scientist, built what is now known as the Faraday cage, an enclosed ...

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A shielded enclosure used to block electromagnetic fields from reaching its interior. However, a compass does work inside a Faraday cage because the cage does not block the earth's magnetic field.

Way back in the 1830s, Joseph Faraday created what today could be considered a cruel and unusual torture device. Faraday, an English scientist, built what is now known as the Faraday cage, an enclosed ...

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