Arvid Gerhard Damm

Arvid Gerhard Damm
Born(1869-08-07)7 August 1869
Died7 November 1928(1928-11-07) (aged 59)
NationalitySwedish
Occupation(s)Engineer, inventor
A prototype of one of Damm's machines.

Arvid Gerhard Damm (7 August 1869 – 7 November 1928) was a Swedish engineer and inventor. He designed a number of cipher machines, and was one of the early inventors of the wired rotor principle for machine encipherment. The company, AB Cryptograph, was an early predecessor of Crypto AG.