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.

Monday, July 30, 2012

Leaning Towards France: A Technical Appendix

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Last time, I buried a snide criticism of the Fascist-fighting work of the design bureau of Lavochkin and Gorbunov in a footnote. That's ...
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

From Now On, No Defeats, IV, 2: Leaning Towards France

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I've got a great deal rattling around in my mind this week, and an unusually long writing period before the beginning of my graveyard s...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

From Now On, No Defeats, IV: The Fighters of August, I

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It's time to start talking about the aeroplanes of August. In the tradition of this post : The comparison I'm making here is a...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The Fall of France, XI: A Machine For Controlling Space, IV: At The Wall Around The World

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I should be talking about the e nergy content of nitrocellulose dissolved in toluene  and the ballistic properties of supersonic projectil...
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Sunday, July 8, 2012

From Now On, No Defeats, III: Do You Hear the Drums?

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Call me sentimental, but I play this song for my youngest niece a lot. Or I would have posted this, and made you all suffer like a retai...
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Thursday, July 5, 2012

From Now On, No Defeats, II: The Crisis in 1942, I: The River

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Seventy years ago today, the Germans are on the move. Sixth Army and 4th Armoured Army are attacking east out of the great bend of the Don. ...
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Friday, June 29, 2012

The Fall of France, X: A Machine For Controlling Space, III: The Shootists

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So I'm staking out a position here where the mass conscript armies of 1914 aren't going to be traced back to the world-historical m...
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