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.

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1949, II: Ferrite Age

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That's the spirit. Now for something whitebread. CBC Radio's old time stable of local Can-Con did a Christmas album ...
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Thursday, December 19, 2019

Iodised Salt and the Problem of Money in Science: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1949

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Where I got this. (Not exactly the source, but fair's fair.) So I was pretty gobsmacked when I discovered that a lobby of salt ma...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Postblogging Technology, September, 1949, II: The End of the Great Siege

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(When Suzy was due to come back from pregnancy leave in '53, her boss told her that "they'd decided to go in a different...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

Postblogging Technology, September 1949, I: Viscount Ordered

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: First week of law school, all that I hoped for! Reggie's getting a ca...
Friday, November 29, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXI: Silver and the State

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My schedule briefly had me working an overtime shift next week, so as long as that prospect was before me, I was working on September of 19...
Friday, November 22, 2019

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, 20: Green Mountain Boys

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Modern Cyrene is a complex of archaeological tourist traps on the outskirts of Shahat, Libya, although you can't see that clearly he...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

Postblogging Technology, August 1949, II: Axis of the World

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, here it is, another summer over. No matter for me, for I am a darin...
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