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.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Postblogging Technology, July 1946, II: Accumulated Negligence

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R_.C_., General Delivery, Nakusp, Canada Dear Father: As you can see from the news, we've come off a lot more lightly t...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Recapping The Bishops' Sea

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I have a point when I talk about how the early settlement of the Atlantic took place in a "bishop's sea." It is, in the fir...
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Saturday, August 13, 2016

Zeus, Hurling Comets: A Vacation Extra

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(Not quite a vacation: My "accumulated time off" is being purged ahead of back to school.) One of the more colourful stori...
Thursday, August 11, 2016

Postblogging Technology, July 1946, I: Blinding White New Bread

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R.C., General Delivery, Nakusp,  Canada. Dear Father: Thanks for yours of last week. Uncle George has made a...
Saturday, August 6, 2016

Postblogging Technology, June 1946, II: Vacationing For Lost Time

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R_.C_. General Delivery, Nakusp, Canada. Dear Father: This package is a bit bulky since I am including an album of photographs of...
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Saturday, July 30, 2016

Report On A Found Note To Whomever: First Day of Vacation Miscellanenous Bonus Post

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Found taped to the battery cover of when it was returned to us from the shop In conclusion, robots are going to do all our work re...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

The British Army and the Fall of France: A Recap

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The winter of 1946 was like this But the spring of 1955 was like this I'd doff my hat to an old Simpsons reference, but I can...
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