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.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

D-Day +23: First Stakes

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So, seventy years ago today,  Operation EPSOM  is closing down. Three days ago, General Sir Richard O'Connor , star a few World War...
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Monday, June 23, 2014

D-Day +17: Ducks

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Serious business, today, folks. Armies fail; states fail ; gasoline prices rise; people worry about their jobs and put off purchases; at t...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

D-Day+13: Silk Road

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Seventy years ago today, the wind is picking up. Hitler weather is coming, the worst spring storm in the Channel in more than sixty years, ...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

D+11: Robot Solution

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Source: Urbagram.net Yesterday morning, 70 years ago today, Herbert Morison rose in the House of Commons. The Home Secretary had somet...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

D-Day +10: Neptune'sTriumph

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British Pathe. Or, given, seventy years ago today, 6000 ton concrete caissons are being towed across the Channel at a stately 4 knot...
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Friday, June 13, 2014

D-Day +7: The Roads Must Roll

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I can imagine conversations between something (let's go full Novocento and call it the Zeitgeist) and the state order. Some ...
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Monday, June 9, 2014

Normandy+3: The Fatherland Sends Its Best Regards

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I am sure I've done this one before, because I distinctly recall cringing at the introductory, " Bertold Brecht said......
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