Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern
Cipher Machine Component Associated with Edward Hebern
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- 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.
- This black bakelite component would fit on the shaft of a cipher machine. It has holes for wires but no wires. Marked around one portion of the rim are the letters: D c B A.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- cipher machine component
- maker
- Edward Hebern
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.1 cm x 10.2 cm x 10.3 cm; 7/16 in x 4 1/32 in x 4 1/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.3033.014
- nonaccession number
- 1991.3033
- catalog number
- 1991.3033.014
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Scripps Downing
- subject
- Mathematics
- Codes and Ciphers
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Mathematics
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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