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, August 27, 2010

Fall of France, 3: On Armoured Warfare, II: Britain's Army

So let's get beyond the fluff and ask ourselves what the British army looked like, what could happen to it. In 1850, the British army co...

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Daniel Szechi on what's at stake if we take the Jacobites seriously: If we accept that Jacobitism was a force to be reckoned with at all...

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Gather the Bones, Part Two

So, I'm a science fiction geek, and I had the same escapist, impossibly romantic fantasies of a total revolutionary transformation of my...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Fall of France, 3: On Armoured Warfare, II

Tanks, of course, were into their second war in September 1939, and it would be a mistake to think of them as having been invented in the 19...

Monday, July 26, 2010

Fall of France, 2: On Armoured Warfare, I

It is not hard to learn about the British army's views on armoured warfare in 1940. It is an important issue, of course, because one thi...

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Gather the Bones, Part One

So that last was a bit obscure. I'm trying to allude to something that I've said many times elsewhere, but, obviously, never here. T...

Monday, July 19, 2010

Dive in the river and go to a better place

I'm listening to this right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_No4g5ZULI8 And recently checked this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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