Blast from the Past: You are safe in a steel wire cage charged with 300,000 volts
Posted By: Naveen Kumar | Jul 5 2007
The mere thought of getting close to tens of thousands of volts of electricity sends shivers through my spine. Presently, we can boast of the Dalek cage that lets a person get close to thousands of volts of electricity with six feet sparks. The same thing was possible back in 1954 also, thanks to 'Faraday's cage' that kept an engineer in a Munich museum demonstration safe and sound when he was standing in a steel-wire ball, which had a 300,000-volt electric current passing through it. The electricity spread harmlessly around the ball and got grounded with the help of a cable. No matter how powerful is the electrostatic field, Faraday's cage protects its occupants from the deadly shocks.
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Via ModernMechanix
