Prototype Hebern Cipher Machine 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 device includes a black motor on a metal base. A vertical bakelite circuit board is in front of the motor. Green wires from the top of the circuit board attach to a wheel to the right of the motor which is apparently driven by it. Red wires from the bottom of the circuit board are held together with tape and attach to a socket. There are lettered lugs at the ends of the red wires that attach to the circuit board.
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: 1991.3033.119
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3033
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3033.119
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cipher machine component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17.5 cm x 34 cm x 30 cm; 6 7/8 in x 13 3/8 in x 11 13/16 in