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, April 25, 2017

A Very Brief and Non-Technical Appendix About Then and Now

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Something I read this afternoon, slightly edited.. "Economists are very worried about the decline in labor’s share of U.S. nation...

Postblogging Technology, March 1947, II: The Only Bad Publicity

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R_.C_., Oriental Club, London, England. Dear Father: I  expected to find you haunting the Reform Club with your cousin. O...
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

Further to the Last: New Light, Not Necessarily On The Converting Sacrament

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Lameen and Graydon have been bugging me for years to subject my crackpot hypothesis to DNA testing. It may seem like I've been ignori...
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Gathering the Bones, 19: Sinners In the Hands Of An Angry He Who Wears Human Heads as Earrings

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* It's properly time to for me to be reviewing technology news from March of 1947, but I have some time off this week, and ...
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Friday, April 14, 2017

Gathering the Bones, 18: Hew Down the Bridge!

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Then none was for a party—   Then all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor,   And the poor man loved the great; The...
Friday, April 7, 2017

Postblogging Technology, March 1947, I: Rocket Is For Emergency Use Only

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Source. R_.C_. Washington Square Hotel, New York. Dear Father: I hope this catches up with you before you board ship fo...
Saturday, April 1, 2017

Technology Transfers: Fleecing, Disrupting, Honing: A Partly Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February, 1947

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HMAS Vampire. One of four Daring -class  (1949) destroyers ordered from Australian yards; of which three were completed. Very high tech fo...
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