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, November 26, 2012

Plantation of the Atlantic, XVIII: Gunfleet

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Water, silt, mud, spawning grounds, channels, life, death. Admiralty Chart, but scraped here. The Thames rises on the spring line of ...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

From Now On, No More Defeats: The Siege

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Minesweeper's Victory . ( Mingulay Boat Song .) The epeiric sea gives Claesz , Still Life with Silver Brandy Bowl, Wine Glas...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Old Europe: Bad Generals

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Everybody! The General needs your help! The rights owners have done a heroic job of making sure that you'll never see White Christmas...
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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

From Now On, No Defeats: Alamein, III: "Look for me at dawn on the third day."

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Gandalf? Gandalf. .  El Alamein? From History in Images El Alamein. Lifted from the Birmingham War Studies Blog ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012

From Now On, No Defeats: Alamein, II: To the Green Fields Beyond

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How it didn't happen: That's the staff illustrator for Herbert Wrigley Wilson's History of the Great War , again. ...
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

From Now On, No More Defeats: Alamain, I: The Roads Must Roll

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McCaw's of Alberta wants you to know that they're very good at what they do, which is take dirt from  one place and put it ...
Monday, October 15, 2012

Old Europe: To The White Tower

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" Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter , wollt dem Kaiser wied'rum kriegen Stadt und Festung  Belgerad ! Er ließ schlagen eine Brukk...
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