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, August 23, 2018

A Half and Half Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1948: From the Oder to the Spree

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It's time to catch up on a few things. UBC's copy, or at least the copy in my hands, comes from the library of Dr. J. S. Milsum,...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Postblogging Technology, June 1948, II: Blockades, Airlifts, Antitrust and Floods

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(The surprisingly apropos theme for the Vanport Flood documentary, embedded below.) R_. C_. Oriental Club, London, U.K. Dear...
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Sunday, August 12, 2018

Postblogging Technology, June 1948, I: If We Don't Believe in the European Recovery, Maybe It Won't Happen

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"Peck a hole to see if a redwood's really red"? It's almost like there's a subtext R_. C_., Vancouver, Cana...
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Monday, July 30, 2018

A Second Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1948, II: Mr. Smith Goes To Ground

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"Heath Row." I probably shouldn't dwell on it as much as I do, but there's something ineffably weird about Britain...
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

A Technological Appendix to May 1948, II: Somewhat Germane(ium)

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(Michel Colombier composition: Somewhat better known than his music for  Colossus : The Forbin Project) So this week we have news of...
Friday, July 20, 2018

Postblogging Technology, May 1948, II: Black Out And Honey Trap

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R_. C_., The Astoria, New York Dear Father: I hope this letter finds you well, and I hope there's enough money in newsprin...
Sunday, July 15, 2018

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, 15 1/4: Wool And What Came Before

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Silver Star, the Valhalla range, and the backs of one of my cousins' families. Taken half a hip swivel to the left of the first. ...
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