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.

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Postblogging Technology, August 1945, I:Polarising Moments

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Group Captain R_. C_., OC Special Intelligence Interpretation Unit, RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia.  Venerated Fatherl...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

A Technical Appendix That is a Bleg for a Water-Cooled Slide Rule And Better Cashiers

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Edit: Material completely not relevant to post, as opposed to comments, way down at the bottom. I had not intended to do a technical appe...
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Sunday, September 6, 2015

There's a Western Union Boy Waiting in the Lobby

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OC Special Intelligence Interpretation Unit, RAAF Richmond, Sydney, NSW. Cancel emergency leave Stop mother and baby out of dang...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Postblogging Technology, July 1945, II: Who Doesn't Want a Water-Cooled Slide Rule?

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Group Captain R_. C_., RCAFVR, OBE, DSO, DFC (Bar), RAAF Richmond, NSW, Australia Dear Father: "GRACE."
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...
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