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English: A Faraday cage from 1925 at the Radio Laboratory, Washington D.C. of the US Bureau of Standards (now NIST) to shield sensitive experiments against electromagnetic fields. It consists of an enclosure surrounded by fine copper screen.
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Source Retrieved 9 June 2025 from Snyder, Wilbert F. ; Bragaw, Charles L. (1986) Achievement in Radio: Seventy years of radio science, technology, standards, and measurement at the National Bureau of Standards, US Dept. of Commerce, p.64 archived on worldradiohistory.com
Author Wilbert F. Snyder and Charles L. Bragaw
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Faraday cage of wire screen to shield against radio waves

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1 October 1986

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