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With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.

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Nikola Tesla
Age: 86 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 10
Died: 1943
Died: January 7
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