Engineer Is Safe in Steel Wire Cage Charged With 300,000 Volts (Feb, 1954)
Engineer Is Safe in Steel Wire Cage Charged With 300,000 Volts
Even though a 300,000-volt electric current surges through the steel-wire ball which encloses him, an engineer in a Munich museum demonstration remains unperturbed. The so-called “Faraday’s cage” protects its passenger even though he’s in the midst of a powerful electrostatic field. The electricity spreads harmlessly around the ball and is then grounded via a cable.
Quite true. Boston’s Museum Of Science has a huge Van De Graff generator once used for research at MIT in Middleton, MA. It has the same setup, except the cage is considerably larger and more sophisticated as befits a research instrument.
If anyone ever gets the chance, the high-voltage show there is quite a sight and worth the price of admission to the museum itself.
Alan
I wonder if this guy ever got together with the girl in the glass bulb- looks like a perfect match.
On a similar note, this video is pretty incredible: http://www.youtube.com/…
Fluffy: I thought that video was awesome. I actually liked it so much I downloaded the entire Modern Marvels episode it was from. Very cool stuff.
This experiment is still be shown every day in that munich museum. The Deutsches Museum:
http://www.deutsches-mu…