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, August 26, 2014

D-Day+81: Vaulting the Seine: Tn. 5's Triumph

Advance, Brave Canadians! GRAY Bridge over the Seine at Elbeuf. (Sources, 1 , Curated by Michael Sabarly) Are you tired of picturesque...

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Exploring the End of Grass: Oceans Fall

At Ocean Falls, a ghost town on the central coast of British Columbia, 35 mW of power drains away in to the sea, unused. In this post, I wi...

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Postblogging Technology, July 1944, I: Victory Comes Late

My Dearest Reggie: I see that I have once more broken the first rule of home front correspondents. I have worried you. No need for y...

Monday, August 11, 2014

Postblogging Technology, 1944: A Technical Appendix for July 1944: Making the World Safe for B-29s

A bit of an amuse-bouche here. This is Highway 19, completed in 1979 between Campbell River, British Columbia and Port McNeill, in the same...

Thursday, August 7, 2014

What Is Goodwood To Us, Or We to Goodwood? Totalising Change

Terry Copp summarises : "After a successful assault on a defended coast, General Eisenhower's naval, air and ground forces dest...

Saturday, August 2, 2014

Postblogging Technology, June 1944, II: The Storm is Coming

Wing Commander R_. C_, D.F.C. L_. House, Isle of Axholme, Lincs., U.K. My Dear Father: Time seems to have gotten away from us...

Monday, July 28, 2014

Moar Technical Appendix: Guns, An Early IT Revolution, and Gyproc

I don't know why I do this to myself. It's about as much fun as ripping out drywall.

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