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People have dealt with and managed the problems of static electricity for hundreds of years. For example, in the early 1400s, military forts, implemented static control procedures when dealing with black powder to prevent ignition from Electro Static Discharge (ESD). As early as the 1860s, paper mills throughout the US utilized basic grounding and flame ionization techniques to dissipate static electricity from steel drums and paper webs during the drying process. When the U.S. Navy sent the first nuclear submarine below the north pole in the 1950s, typical antistats were used to reduce static electrical influences on the navigational equipment. Through the years, electrical devices became smaller and faster, thus, more susceptible to the damaging effects of static. In order to assure continued proper functioning of electrical devices, the navy required some form of electrostatic control. As a result of the navy's mandates, static control awareness increased throughout the world...