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.

Thursday, December 29, 2016

Postblogging Technology, November 1946, II: To the Moon in '48!

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R_. C._,  Toronto, Canada Dear Father: You will be glad to know that I  have approved both Miss M. and Miss J. ...
Friday, December 23, 2016

An Agro-Technical Appendix, III: The American System

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David Hounshell is the David M. Roderick Professor at Carnegie-Mellon and the author of   From the American System to Mass Production, 18...
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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Postblogging Technology, November, 1946, I: Thirty Miles of Coal Smoke

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R_.C_., Westmount, Montreal, Canada. Dear Father: Again, thank you for all that you have done. In your reply to my telegraph, yo...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

No Other Eye: A Recovering From the Flu Extra

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1040 Marine Drive is one of "30 homes listed for sale in Port Alice [British Columbia]" at this website. If it seems a littl...
Monday, December 5, 2016

An Agro-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1946, II: Bad Food, Bad Land, Bad People

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" The greatest thing since sliced bread ." I'm going to reprise a bit from last week. I still can't get over the fact ...
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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Postblogging Technology, October, 1946, II: Spring is Coming

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Time needs to be more careful with its copy. You might almost read this as implying that these two pinkos are having an affair.  On th...
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...
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