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.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Master of Horses: Gallic Invasions and State Mobilisations in the Third Century, BC.

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Well. Someone didn't get to the library until 1PM Tuesday; and it so happens that it closes at 5 on Tuesdays, and that there turns out ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

A Not Terribly Technical Appendix: Bats in the Belfry

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Yes, it's a repeat, but some things are a classic for a reason. There have been many crazy inventors, and many things to point at a...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Postblogging Technology, July 1945, I: Something Smells Off

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Source Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, OBE, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dear Father: Your letter find...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

The Closed Sea: Planting the Pacific: Or, Three Centuries on the Stoop

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Source "Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific –– and all his men Look’d at each other with...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Postblogging Technology, June, 1945, II: The Defence Advances

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Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, OBE, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dearest Father: It is I, Dame Grace, wri...
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Friday, July 24, 2015

Postblogging Technology, June 1945, I: The Inventors

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Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dearest Father: What a relief! First, the war...
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Monday, July 13, 2015

Fall of France, XI: Nimrods All the Way Down

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This rubs me the wrong way. I'm not sure the subtext is as pro-Nazi as I perceive it to be, but, for me, the perception is there. ...
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