Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern - Rotor Component
name: label: maker
content: Edward Hebern
notes: label: Description
content: The American inventor Edward Hebern (1869-1952) designed a series of machines for encrypting messages. The Smithsonian collections include a few of these as part of accession 1991.0190. Like many inventors, Hebern accumulated a variety of spare parts. These are some of them, part of museum transaction 1991.3033.
label: Description
content: This object is bakelite with an aluminum center piece; cloth-covered green wires; and copper (?) lugs. The disc is indented at center. The lettered lug of each wire is screwed down. The wWire then passes across the indentation; goes through a hole in side of rotor; comes back through the rim, and is attached in the same circle of holes as the lettered lugs.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Codes and Ciphers
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of T. Scripps Downing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.3033.011
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3033
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3033.011
objectType: label: Object Name
content: rotor component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 cm x 16 cm x 16 cm; 2 3/8 in x 6 5/16 in x 6 5/16 in