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.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

So I Caught An Anglo-Saxon, and He Was This Long. Me on Fleming, Britain After Rome

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So I've been reading Robin Fleming's Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 (London: Allen Lane, 2010) . This isn'...
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Sunday, November 21, 2010

Fall of France, 7, Hardware: Queen of the Desert

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So, the British army had played around with tanks large and small during the 1920s. Activity hit a low ebb during the Depression, and began ...
Friday, November 12, 2010

Electric Santayana III: Let's Not Think About Rob Schneider Any More, If That's Not too Meta

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I hadn't intended to blog about this again any time soon. But then there's this. " Britain was slow to move from the old ind...
Thursday, November 11, 2010

November 11th

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TEhzpcCRYQ
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Fall of France, 6: Hardware

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When we talk about things like tanks in World War II, there is a very strong temptation to talk about hardware. Because hardware is cool.   ...
Friday, November 5, 2010

On Decline

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So the United States is the greatest empire that the world has ever seen. But are its best days behind it? Spain and Britain are empires tha...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Electric Santayana II: Douce Gigawatt

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So let's talk about a time when a government facing a "business slump" launched a  major infrastructural project, and it turne...
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