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.

Friday, July 26, 2019

Tinplate: An Inquiry for a Vacation Week

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I should have taken a landscape portrait, but it was before breakfast.  Five weeks ago I went to visit my sister's family in Kamlo...
Friday, July 19, 2019

The Eyes Have It: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging, April 1949

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Two things from last month that are obviously much more interesting than Standard Telephone and Cable' s version of that new American...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Postblogging Technology, April 1949, II: Prelaxed

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I can't express how grateful I am to  you, and how happy we all were...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

Postblogging Technology, April 1949, I: A Generation of Pearls

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R_.C_., Hyde Park Hotel, Tampa, Florida, U.S.A. Dear Father: This comes to you by the hand of Willie Yeoh, because he doe...
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...
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