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, January 31, 2013

Gather the Bones, XVI: Shiftless Spaniards, the Eanna of Uruk, and My Terrible Grasp of Logic, I

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* Just a  jeux d'esprit  today. Some countries are rich, and some countries are poor. For some reason, economic historians who l...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Gather the Bones, XV: Inauguration, 1828

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* Andrew Jackson, lawyer turned governor turned general, national hero and senator ( i , ii ), entered into the Presidency of the Unite...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

From Now On, No More Defeats: The Siege, 3: Metacentric Heights

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* This is not a real submarine.  Neither are these, ( 1, 2, 3, , 4, 5, 6 ), but they're a good place to start the discussion....
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Thursday, January 10, 2013

Gather the Bones, XIV: Down From the Shimmering Sky

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* I had not meant to return to the shingled beach, but an obvious enough (in retrospect) web genealogy search has led me back to the rai...
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Friday, January 4, 2013

From Now On, No More Defeats: The Siege, 2: Towards the Atlantic Climax: Technical Appendix

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* A long time ago, things were different. We said hello to each other in the streets and didn't lock our doors, and people wore a lo...
Thursday, December 27, 2012

From Now On, No More Defeats: The Siege, 2: Towards the Atlantic Climax

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Below.* Die Matrosenlied: " Wir fahren gegen Engeland! " So kiss a girl one last time, because the grey seas and iron guns...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Gather the Bones, XIII: On The Chuck

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When you come into camp off the chuck, the water taxi will drop you off on the booms. Don't forget your corks, or you'll drow...
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