Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern - Rotor Component

Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern, Rotor Component
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Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern, Rotor Component
Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern, Rotor Component
Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern, Rotor Component
Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern, Rotor Component
Description:

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.

In this piece, two attached steel discs with geared edges and a circle of holes are attached to a black bakelite ring with no wiring. The rotor is Incomplete.

Maker: Edward Hebern

Location: Currently not on view

Subject: Mathematics, Codes and Ciphers

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Credit Line: Gift of T. Scripps Downing

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1991.3033.006Catalog Number: 1991.3033.006Nonaccession Number: 1991.3033

Object Name: rotor component

Physical Description: steel (overall material)plastic (overall material)Measurements: overall: 1.6 cm x 10.3 cm x 10.3 cm; 5/8 in x 4 1/16 in x 4 1/16 in

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a5-0e44-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_692610

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