Cobalt 60 Teletherapy Unit
notes: label: Description
content: Melville Leonard Jacobs (1903-1988) was a physician who served, for many years, as Chairman of the Departments of Radiation and Radiation Therapy at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California. With the help of colleagues at that facility, Dr. Jacobs designed this Cobalt 60 Teletherapy Unit, and oversaw its installation in June 1955. Twenty years later, he arranged to have it donated to the Smithsonian. The inscription on a plate reads “Mars Eng. & Mfg. Co. / Burbank, Calif.”
label: Description
content: Ref: “Radiologist Shapes Weapons to Fight Cancer,” Los Angeles Times (Feb. 27, 1966), p. SG-B1.
label: Description
content: “Early Atom Device Will Go To Museum,” Los Angeles Times (June 23, 1975), p. B121.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Melville Jacobs, Associated Director at City of Hope, Dies,” Los Angeles Times (Aug. 12, 1977), p. C3.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: City of Hope National Medical Center, through the courtesy of Melville L. Jacobs, M.D., Chairman of the Dept. of Radiation & Oncology and designer of the unit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.316410.01.01
label: accession number
content: 316410
label: catalog number
content: 316410.01.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: apparatus, medical
label: Object Name
content: radiation therapy unit
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 21 in x 19 1/2 in x 96 1/2 in; 53.34 cm x 49.53 cm x 245.11 cm