Site Represents a site. Show Point true Place The town or city Playfair Terrace, 2 North St, St Andrews KY16 9HX, Wielka Brytania Street The street address 2 North St, St Andrews Prim Media 422 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ardgowan Hotel Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived mathematicalycurious Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 293 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.34213210188051,-2.800955772399903; Description An account of the resource Ardgowan Hotel served as an accommodation to many soldiers during World War II, including Józef Kozacki, a portable mine detector inventor. Kozacki was a signals officer of the First Polish Army which stationed in St. Andrews. After a mine explosion on the beach in Arboath killed two Polish soldiers, Kosacki was determined to use his experience and engineering education to prevent such accidents in the future. By exploiting the radiowaves and objects interactions to detect metal objects underground, he created prototype of a mine detector that successfully detected metal objects as small as coins previously scattered around West Sands. The portable mine detector was used in combat for the first time in 1942 and since then around five hundred detectors were issued to the army as they doubled the speed at which mined sands could be cleared, accelerating the speed from 100 to 200 meters an hour. Kosacki has never patented his invention, instead he handed it to the British army free of charge for which he received a congratulations letter from King George VI. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource pkaniewski998@gmail.com Subject The topic of the resource Physics Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT