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, April 27, 2019

The Bishop's Sea: Saint Colman, Saint Boniface and St. Tridwell, Pray for Us

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I'm not going to go pointing fingers, but  someone underperformed on the writing front this holiday long weekend. (In completely unre...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

A Technical Appendix to January, 1949, II: Machine Tools, 1943 and 1949

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According to Ibis World , the British machine tool industry had a projected revenue of £1.1bn, an annual growth rate for the period 2014--2...
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Sunday, April 14, 2019

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, January 1949, II: Long Playing

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Edit: While I've left an incorrect title stand for a week without the sky falling, correcting it will be helpful to me . Source We...
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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Postblogging Technology, January 1949, II: Our Hearts Go Out for Avro

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thanks for your kind concern. I am bearing up, I think, considering that I...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Austerity, The Barrier Fortresses and the Pretender: Another Visit to 1745

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In this modern age of computer-assisted scheduling and twenty-four operations,you can be sure that if you mention that your schedule viol...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Postblogging Technology, January 1949, I: You Know Those French

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Ooh la la! R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I'm sure that you will have heard from Wong Lee, a...
Friday, March 15, 2019

The Bishop's Sea (And, incidentally and Minimally, a Technical Appendix): Coldingham

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Since I'm in the very earliest stages of putting together Postblogging Technology, January 1949, I: Uhm, Something Clever I Hope, thanks...
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