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.
- These two steel discs both have a hole in the middle and edges like 1991.3033.006. They are badly rusted.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Edward Hebern
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Scripps Downing
- Physical Description
- steel (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .3 cm x 10.1 cm x 10.1 cm; 1/8 in x 3 31/32 in x 3 31/32 in
- Object Name
- rotor components
