id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15905 Garrett, Jeffrey Wershler-Henry, Darren. The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2007. First published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, 2005. 331p. alk. paper, $29.95 (ISBN 0801445868). LC 2007-002217. 2007-11-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1865 88 56 The end of this book considers wheth- er the computer has “succeeded” the typewriter, in the sense of emerging from typewriter technology as the next logical evolutionary step. Henry Petroski, technology his- torian and professor of civil engineering at Duke, has writt en several books with a bearing on libraries and the evolution of information storage and transmission, among them cache/crl-15905.pdf txt/crl-15905.txt