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, October 31, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, 19: Scheidel Versus Soap

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"Sacred Spring" is a thesis about cleanliness being next to godliness. The Bronze Age was the age of wool, not of metal...
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Friday, October 25, 2019

Big Science and Big Bombs: A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1949, II;

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UPDATE: I don't usually fix these off-week posts. They're hurried for a reason. On the other hand, blah blah work schedule here I am...
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Sunday, October 20, 2019

Postblogging Technology, July 1949, II: Swift is the Hunter

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R_. C_., c/o Painter's Lodge, Campbell River, Canada. Dear Father: I'm sorry to hear about the lodge. But not that sorr...
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Sunday, October 13, 2019

Postblogging Technology, July 1949, I: A Gem of an Engine

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: This reaches you from my almost luxurious pen, as I am now an ...
Friday, October 4, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, 18: Apocalypse As Driving Force (Speculation)

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This picture is Art, and therefore the performers do not need to be named. I thought slavery was illegal now, but what do I know? Shame, G...
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Friday, September 27, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, 17: "Boiled in alkalis and then laid out in the sun and wind to bleach:"

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 Thus F. H. Bramwell, who begins his very brief discussion of the "chlorine bleaching powder industry" (F. H. Bramwell, "Mec...
Saturday, September 21, 2019

Postblogging Technology, June 1949, II: She'll Have Fun

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Not much to report except that we're still flying, but not as mu...
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