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, August 28, 2011

Fall of France, 11: Making Free On The Land: Or, the Bailey Bridge

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The Kriegswissenschaftliche M émoiren collection of the War Archives of the Austrian State Archives contain many interesting and well-produc...
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Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, VIII: The Rule of the Admiral

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Hee. I'm hilariously riffing on Jeffrey Bannister's Rule of the Admirals. Because Christopher Columbus was appointed "Admiral ...
Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Late Bronze Age Collapse, III: Sandy Pylos

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I went looking for the edited collection  of articles coming out of the University of Minnesota expedition to Pylos, a Middle Bronze Age--La...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

On an Alternative Explanation for Human Demographic History: Or, I Don't Believe in Plague

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I was so struck by the cleverness of my "unsettling of America" subtitle last time that it failed to cross my mind that it might n...
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Sunday, August 7, 2011

Gather the Bones, 10: Unsettling America

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I just caught a Vinyl Cafe rerun of an episode on "children's songs that are worth a listen." This was on it. Good news. ...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

The Plantation of the Atlantic, VII: A Sea of Islands?

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This is a song of my parent's generation, dating to a time when Canada's interaction with Newfoundland and Labrador was rather more...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Innovation and Trolls: The Auld Alliance

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My internet buddy Brett Holman was musing about counterfactual history today. Specifically, that one about steam engines in the Roman Empir...
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