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 is a black bakelite component for the shaft of cipher machine. It has holes for wires but no wires. Four holes are labeled with the rough letters A B C D.
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: 1991.3033.015
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3033
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3033.015
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cipher machine component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.2 cm x 10.2 cm x 11 cm; 15/32 in x 4 1/32 in x 4 11/32 in