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Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector

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Theres some murkiness about the detectors exact circuitry, as befits a technology developed under wartime security, but our best understanding is this: The tool consisted of a bamboo pole with an oval-shaped wooden panel at one end that held two coilsone transmitting and one receiving, according to a 2015 article in Aerospace Research in Bulgaria.

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