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.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

A Country Tour: A Pre-Appendix for Postblogging Technology, October 1956, II, Part Two, A Rising, Not a Setting Sun.

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Newsweek's sortie into the "picture of browned-off coal miner" unfortunately doesn't mention the NUM's extra-beefste...
Friday, November 18, 2016

Islands in the Sun: A Technical For Some Values of Technical Pre-Appendix to October, II, 1946, Part One

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David Brown DB4. Per fandom , 110 were built in 1942--49. It was "basically a D4 clone," built "for the Ministry," bec...
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Saturday, November 12, 2016

Postblogging Technology, October 1946, I: Through Sacrifice, The Stars

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R_.C_. Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I hope that you will forgive a short note on this letter, as I have little t...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016

"The Majesty of the People Had Disappeared"

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This is the Story of How Raven Brought the Sun to His People.   According to a Haida story, in the beginning the world was in total d...
Saturday, November 5, 2016

A Crowning Glory of a Technical Appendix: Sanford-Humoller, Hand Looms and Min Chueh Chang

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Since Halloween has been held over an extra week-and-a-half this year, how about something scary?  Boo! It's a strong wo...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

Postblogging Technology, September 1946, II: Progress Comes in Waves

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I  hope this letter finds you not atomically-blasted to...
Saturday, October 22, 2016

Postblogging Technology, October 1946, I: A Loss Leader

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R_.C_.,  Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I hope that this letter finds you peacefully at home in front...
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