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Tragedy Spurred the First Effective Land-Mine Detector

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The transmitting coil was connected to the oscillator, which generated current at an acoustic frequency, writes Mike Croll in his book The History of Landmines. The receiving coil was connected to the amplifier, which was then linked to a pair of headphones. British soldiers used the device to scour the minefield for explosives.

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