Okay, I'm doing a presentation on Michael Faraday for tomorrow's physics class. I looked up on him on the Intarweb, and found stuff about the Faraday cage, and how to make a cheap, homemade ...

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.

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