Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern
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 black bakelite component would fit on shaft of cipher machine. It includes a circular ring of metal spring contacts. The size lis ike that of two components in 1991.3033.13. The object also has an array of small holes inside the contacts and wires attached to these holes.
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: 1991.3033.013
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3033
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3033.013
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cipher machine component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 cm x 10.2 cm x 10.2 cm; 13/32 in x 4 1/32 in x 4 1/32 in