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, June 29, 2019

Camels, Salt, and the Rise of Islam: Some Small Reflections on a Minor Controversy on Someone Else's Blog

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Westwold, British Columbia, lies in the trees at the far left. The view is from the shoulder of Highway 97C. Arable bottomland stretches...
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1949, II: Interim Bombers of the Future

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Grumman F9F As March of 1949 winds down, the "B-36 Controversy" is in full swing. Aviation Week has told you recently...
Sunday, June 16, 2019

Postblogging Technology, March 1949, II: A Comet in the Future

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I leave this for you so that you will know that I haven't been w...
Sunday, June 9, 2019

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging, March 1949: HMS Queen Elizabeth II

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In this sixty-eighth year of the reign of our sovereign majesty, Queen Elizabeth II , she has been honoured by a warship carrying her name....
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Sunday, June 2, 2019

Postblogging Technology, March 1949, I: A Sturdy Refusal to be Perplexed

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: a month left to my undergraduate career, but not even really that! My und...
Saturday, May 25, 2019

A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1949: I Heard An Owl

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That was earnest. I've been fascinated by Vice-Admiral (E) Sir John Kingcome (1890--1950) since I first encountered him in the ...
Saturday, May 18, 2019

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging February, 1949, II: A Thirst For Colour

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If you're wondering why a sale of 30,000 tons of Argentinian linseed is hanging fire in the winter of 1949, it is because linseed oil...
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