Radium Teletherapy Apparatus used at Westminster Hospital

Made:: 1929 in Westminster

maker:: Ernest Rock Carling

Four gramme radium teletherapy apparatus (the second Westminster Hospital "bomb"), made by E. Rock Carling at Westminster hospital, London, 1929.

Details

Category:: Radiomedicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A639428

Materials:: posts, iron, arm, oak, ? material and adjusting knob, brass

Measurements:: posts: height 845 mm
arm: length 1955 mm
cupola: diameter 370 mm
post, base: diameter 390 mm

type:: radium teletherapy apparatus

credit:: Westminster Hospital

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