Cipher Machine Components 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: These two black bakelite pieces are like those found holding the rotors in 1991.190.02 and like those on the shaft in 1991.3033.01. Each piece has the dimensions given. One piece has metal connections but irregularly spaced holes at the center. The other has no wiring. One rotor is marked: EXTRA.
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: 1991.3033.005
label: catalog number
content: 1991.3033.005
label: nonaccession number
content: 1991.3033
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cipher machine components
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.1 cm x 10 cm x 10.2 cm; 7/16 in x 3 15/16 in x 4 1/32 in