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, May 28, 2016

Postblogging Technology, April 1946, II: British Turboencabulators Are Less Powerful Than American, And Not So Well Finished As German

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Dear Dr. B: Enclosed are family photographs sized as you suggested for my father-in-law's rooms. Thank you for letting me continue ...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Postblogging Technology, April 1946, I: Coming Home

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My Dear Dr. B_: I am told that my father-in-law is a returning patient, and that you have strict rules about the kind of communicat...
Friday, May 13, 2016

A Wizard Did It! The Fall of Rome, VI

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Is the fall of the Roman Empire all down to monetary policy? Given Aurelian's precedent-setting method of dealing with central bank ind...
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Friday, May 6, 2016

Shadow Pasts: Another Anti-Correllian 1940 With Meditations on the Debacle

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"Posterity will hear of these Battles ," said the most unfortunate Flight title ever. The British Air Force in France, ...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Postblogging Technology, March 1946, II: More Work and Better Pay!

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Fraternal Brother Liu Chu Wan! Have received your latest. Please make arrangements have my cousin at the train station in Revelst...
Friday, April 22, 2016

Postblogging Technology, March 1946, I: Tuxedo Park is Melting in the Rain

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Mr. R_. C_., Shaughnessy,  Vancouver, Canada My Dear Father: I hope that this letter finds your convalescence well advanced. Th...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Looking For Alvin: The Debacle

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This post leads from a comment I made over at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative to the effect that Canadian rural abandonment had become so s...
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