Strip Cipher by James Powers
notes: label: Description
content: The flat, wooden base holds a flat brass piece with an array of holes. Two brass cross pieces are screwed to the base. Eleven brass rods, marked with letters of the alphabet in alphabetical order, slide under the cross pieces. There is room for one more rod. Each rod has a pin on the end which fits into the holes of the base.
label: Description
content: The object is associated with tabulating machine inventor James Powers. Powers actually patented a much more complex device for enciphering typed text (for the drawings, see 1991.3180.09).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Codes and Ciphers
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Thor Dockweiler
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0871.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0871.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0871
objectType: label: Object Name
content: strip cipher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 cm x 20.5 cm x 11.9 cm; 25/32 in x 8 1/16 in x 4 11/16 in