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 26, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XII: The Queen of May

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Most publicity shots from Duel in the Sun feature Jane Russell's boobs against a backdrop of hay. Jennifer Jones is this blog ...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

The Bishop's Sea: Nanook

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The Nanook, or Tanfield Valley , site, has appeared in these pages before . Lying along the southeastern coast of Baffin Island , it is ...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Postblogging Technology, March, 1948, II: Necessity is to Invention As . . .

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R_. C_., Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I hope this finds you well, as I'm personally a bit frazzled, having been up to the ci...
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Monday, May 7, 2018

Postblogging Technology, March 1948, I: The City and the Stars

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R. C., Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: You were right to tell me not to worry about Magnin's, and for the good of my ego I wil...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XI: Ancestral Voices

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As a city gradually dissolves under the pressure of a labour shortage About-Which-Nothing-Can-Be Done-And-I'm-Sorry-There-Are-Too-Man...
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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Iron Age/ Industrial Revolution Origins, Plus Housekeeping

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By Stone Monki - 100_9866.jpg.ok.jpg, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28214332 So Chile's Bernardo O...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

Postblogging Technology, February 1948, II: The Dipstick Problem

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Star Leopard R_. C_. Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: So, the truth finally came out about Don Bennett in Britain, last week; and...
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