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.

Sunday, June 29, 2025

UB.109T: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1955

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  So my boss is on his annual pilgrimage to the Old Continent to show everybody that he's a big shot in Canada, and we're training y...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Postblogging Technology, March 1954, I: Hard Money, Hard Plastics, Hard Men

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Here in London the winter of our discontent is rushing to an end. The Economist is at it...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Fireflash and Sparrow: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1955

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  This post is about the contemporary British Fireflash and American Sparrow beam-riding air-to-air missiles, so of course there is a perfec...
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Saturday, June 7, 2025

Gathering the Bones, XXXII: Get Your Kicks on Route . . . Er, 40, It Turns Out

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At least if your musical tastes are as lowbrow as mine (it's a brain chemistry thing, I swear!), the "suggested next video" th...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Postblogging Technology, February, 1955, II: Diamonds in the Rough

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R_., C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Here is your biweekly news summary, boiled down to a single sentence: Peter Sellers is...
Monday, May 26, 2025

Postblogging Technology, February 1955, I: Adding Oxygen

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R_.C., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: There is nothing to make you want to buckle down and write an informative newsletter full...
Saturday, May 17, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXXII: Tophets, Himera, Weird Digressions

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Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein visits Vancouver Technical High School in 1954 because one of his nephews went there and the Fi...
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