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, September 17, 2010

Those Wacky Hittites, IV.

Bronze is a term of art. Copper, although not the most common metallic element in the Earth's crust, has one of the best combinations o...

Those Wacky Hittites, III.

When the Mughal Emperor Akhbar (1542--1605) set out to encourage Sanskrit learning at his court, he could have had no conception that he w...

Those Wacky Hittites, II.

So that's a brief history of the Hittites. ( Wikipedia has a little more detail .) If you look carefully, though, two threads stick out...

Those Wacky Hittites, I.

So: here's a question: "Why the Hittites?" Or, as some guy named Bruce says, One of my favorite teachers used to say that one ...

Saturday, September 11, 2010

G. J. Meyer, The Tudors

I just lost a post for not saving about a recent popular history of the Tudors. Just as well, I found it disappointing, and would have just ...

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...

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