Mobile Penecillin Lab

The Mobile Penicillin Lab built on design ideas that Goldberg had developed in the Mobile Delousing Unit. It also employed the stressed skin plywood construction technology used in earlier projects. Unlike the Mobile Delousing Unit, which was a mast-hung structure, the lab consisted of two boxcar-like units made out of stress-skin plywood, "prelude" to his "boxcar period," as Goldberg described the project in his Oral History. The cars formed a "T" shape, using one car to plant the mold and the other to incubate the penicillin. It was designed to be shop built and transported with equipment in place for assembly in the field. With the end of WWII and a dramatic drop in penicillin prices, the unit was never built.

QUOTE: "They asked me if I had any ideas, and I said I would investigate. I investigated with Westinghouse and together we put an idea together to have a mobile penicillin laboratory to be transported to the African scene."
- Oral History