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Musical Inspiration: Marian Bechtel

  • February 25, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

Inspired by the way certain notes she played on a piano vibrated strings on a nearby banjo, in 2011 Pennsylvania teen Marian Bechtel invented a landmine detector that uses sound waves. It finds plastic and metal mines, and may become a low-cost alternative to current detection methods.

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