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.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

From Now On, No More Defeats: Gliding Away

For I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth.... * This should have gone up on 4/22 (if not 4/20), but I've had it in mind to do ...

Friday, April 26, 2013

Gather the Bones, 17: To Our Mother of the Lakes

This. Plus This * Plus This Equals This Okay, look, I've done this before. My thesis is that the history of t...

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Old Europe: Puck's Gold

* Puck says: " Weland gave the Sword, The Sword gave the Treasure, and the Treasure gave the Law. It's as natural as an oak ...

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Postblogging: March, 1939: Prague, the Estimates, and the Cantonese for "Maternal Grandmother," If You Care About the Framing Conceit

My Dearest Reggie: These packets keep getting thicker, don't they? It's not my fault. Blame Herr Hitler, and other matte...

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The Electric City, V: By the Leave of the Water

* Now, at my age, hour-long Youtube videos are, well, I vacuumed my apartment while trying to keep an ear on Rob Thompson's ...

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Gather the Bones, 16, 3: Cold Iron

"I climb to the ridge of the Pei-mang Hills And look down on the city of Lo-yang . In Lo-yang how still it is! Palaces and houses all b...

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Electric City, IV: Matadors, Trolley Busses and the End of the Age of Grass

Pictures first, taken from LaonaHistory.Com' s* skidding and transporting page . 1. That's one horsey horse! 2. Dec...

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