“A contribution to anonymous history” is the often neglected or forgotten subtitle of Sigfried Giedion’s seminal book Mechanization Takes Command. When it was published in 1948, one of the first persons to receive a copy was Jaqueline Tyrwhitt. She was a close and intimate friend of Giedion—he considered her as somebody “of the same mind”—and behind the scenes she had been involved in preparing his texts for publication, exchanging ideas with him and suggesting corrections to what she describ...
