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.
- This is a black bakelite component for the shaft of cipher machine. It has holes for wires but no wires. Four holes are labeled with the rough letters A B C D.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- maker
- Edward Hebern
- Credit Line
- Gift of T. Scripps Downing
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1.2 cm x 10.2 cm x 11 cm; 15/32 in x 4 1/32 in x 4 11/32 in
- Object Name
- cipher machine component
