Bench Grass

Bench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039.

Friday, October 24, 2025

The Frauds of James Mellaart: A Scientific Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1955, I

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 Specifically, the science of archaeology. James Mellaart is in the news in the summer of 1955, popularising the discovery and first year of...
Monday, October 20, 2025

Postblogging Technology, July 1955: Vaccine Experts Disagree

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R_.C_., The Lake House, Nakusp, B.C. Canada Dear Father: In perhaps the most unexpected development in the history of this correspondence, I...
Sunday, October 12, 2025

The Salk Vaccine and the Fuck-Up: A Medico-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1955

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(Author's Note: I'm trying out the Google auto-link insertion Blogger "beta feature" to make for a "more engaging rea...
Saturday, October 4, 2025

Disney Cartoons and Some Thoughts About Computing in 1955: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1955

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  Lady and the Tramp is that movie with the spaghetti. Per the proffered selection of Youtube shorts, people also remember the Siamese cats...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Postblogging Technology, June 1955, II: Free Speech and Tolerance Except for CIO Organisers

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Yes, it's that movie.  R_. C_., Lake House, Nakusp, Canada Dear Father: It is my last day in Britain, and I have handed off this letter ...
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Postblogging Technology, June 1955, I: Crash Not Crash

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father:  As we continue to pack up and decide what we can't possibly live without in San Fr...
Saturday, September 13, 2025

The Le Mans Disaster: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1955

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This is a snip: Source is https://www.mike-hawthorn.org.uk/lemans2.html Discussion below. There is something to be said, once again, for the...
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