Since we were kids we listened to stories about treasures. Buried treasures, treasures in walls, in wreackages and many others. Our parents did not have electronic detectors to search and locate where those riches were.
They used empiric methods in order to appropriate what was hidden.
Hundreds of books were written about that issue. Every author, according to the period, told in his writings a story that instigated in his readers a desire to the lucky one who could appropriate the fortune to be located.
Many films were made about
"Lost Treasures".
It was on that road of life that the inventors Damasio and Alonso, still kids, were initiated in the stories and legends of treasures which disappear due to revolutions, wars, wreckages and were lost in other unknown ways. There are also treasures lost by families, the product of many years of work in agriculture, cattle breeding and mining.
There were kings, governors, president´s treasures. Treasures from mines and treasures that were product of bank robberies, train robberies and more. Nowadays we have annual losses of
coins,
rings,
earrings,
necklaces,
chains, which are normally used as ornaments for children, teenagers and adults.
There are coins which have a numismatic value of thousands of dollars. There are lots of stories and legends about jesuit treasures after their expulsion in the XVIII century in various countries.
From the big war during the 1940´s decade we have hundreds of stories of big, medium and small treasures, which were carefully kept only to resurface later!
The inventor of the
Long Range Gold Detectors - electronic metal detectors which detect at long distance and great depth, were willing to find those treasures and dedicated to developing a metal detector which detected at a long distance and a depth of at least 50 m. Determination of the depth should be with millimetrical precision!
And, still:
WHICH WAS ALSO CAPABLE OF CLASSIFYING THE BURIED OBJECT!
We must clarify here, the difference between
discriminating and
classifying a located treasure. Click on the chosen word.
The detectors manufactured in 1950/1960 were the ones called -
two boxes - or the
mine-hunters - detectors which operated by electromagnetic waves, similar to those of radio or television.