Object Details
- 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.
- The four rotors are numbered on the rim "5"; "4"; "3" and "4". A steel disc is sandwiched between each plastic ring. Twenty-six cloth-covered wires pass through holes in the metal disc of each rotor and attach on each side. Three of rotors have lettered lugs at both ends of the wires.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Edward Hebern
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Scripps Downing
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- cloth (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 cm x 10.5 cm x 10.5 cm; 25/32 in x 4 1/8 in x 4 1/8 in
- Object Name
- rotors
