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, October 29, 2013

Running Away to the Air, 8: Planes for Ships. A Dialogue

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I start with an apology. This is a response to an argument that ChrisM put forward in an email. I'll cite below, but there is a pretty...
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

First Parallel: A Technical Appendix: The Thermodynamics of High Altitude Air-to-Air Combat in the Propeller Age

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The "funny" way of talking about the science of aeroengines --thermodynamics-- is to say that "you can't win, you can...
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Monday, October 14, 2013

From Now On, No More Defeats: First Parallel

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I'm mixing my metaphors. The artillerie du place  opening up on the fortress from the first parallel is the opposite of the Charge ...
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Postblogging 1939, Final Technical Appendix: The Problem of Control

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It turns out that we did not, in fact, have a base on the dark side of the Moon by 9/9/1999 . Even the idea seems a little crazy in 201...
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Monday, September 30, 2013

Old Europe: The Young Ones

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And now for a short photoessay about life today. 1. Atmosphere is next to Fuel. It is around the corner from Tractor, which isn'...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

Postblogging 1939, August, II: Technical Appendix and Wrap-up

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ThĂ©odore GĂ©ricault has one little thing to say about  navies neglecting navigation. Also, about how cannibalism is sexy. (Look, it's no...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

Postblogging 1939 Technology News, September, II: Crisis Long Deferred

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My Dearest Reggie: Pardon my unseemly scrawl annotating your usual. No typist, no matter how well trusted, can be allowed to se...
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