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.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Postblogging Technology, October, I: Forest for the Trees

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Mr. R_. C_.,  Shaughnessy, Vancouver, British Columbia, Dominion of Canada. Dear Father: I hope that you had a Happy Tha...
Saturday, November 21, 2015

Christ Stops at Kingcome: Yarns of the Plantation

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A Viking Yarn Kingcome Inlet is, as has been mentioned before, a mainland region opposite Port McNeill, the site of my senior high scho...
Saturday, November 14, 2015

Benedict's Atlantic: The Last Emperor, the Second Crusade, the Fall of Lisbon, and the Plantation of the Atlantic

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It's not a point that gets the attention it deserves, but on 23 May, 1147, an army of, uhm, let's say, ten thousand men, embarked o...
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Friday, November 6, 2015

Recap, II: Economies, 1939 to 1943 as the On-Ramp to 194Q (Learning By Doing Number)

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Koxinga: Because Taiwan is rich, and who, in 1950, would have thought it? What do we make of  Henry Luce ? One thing we make is the...
Friday, October 30, 2015

Postblogging Technology, September, 1945 II: Praying for a Good Victory

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Group Captain R_.C_., OBE, c/o Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Canada Dearest Father: This package may be held for y...
Friday, October 23, 2015

Postblogging Technology, September 1945, I: Family Atomics

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From Nyrath's Atomic Rockets site. Best webpage ever! R_. C_. (Group Captain, RCAFVR, Ret.), The Athenaeum, London, U.K. ...
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Thursday, October 15, 2015

A Soldier From the Wars Returning: A Recap: And the First in a Series, It Looks Like

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Chris Friedrichs reminds me of the need for a recap, which is nice, since mining my own archives is something that I don't need library...
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