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.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

The Fall of France, 11: Postblogging Technology in 1939, I: January

* Yes, this blog is going the artisanal slow history route! 1939: The year that the state spent more on technology than...

Monday, February 11, 2013

Running Away to the Air, VIII: Go Big, or Go Home

* Lutz Budra β writes that interwar aeronautics couldn't really get it together until government-funded research into dirigib...

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Gather the Bones, XVI, 2: The Work of Eanna

"When Enmerkar was lord in Uruk, and the heavy barley drooped in the sun under the weight of the dew, and the black haired folk grew f...

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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

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

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Gather the Bones, XV: Inauguration, 1828

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

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

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

* 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....

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Gather the Bones, XIV: Down From the Shimmering Sky

* 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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