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, January 29, 2020

A Meta-Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1949: The End of the Great Siege, I: Politics and Productivity

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Sir Stafford and the Egyptian sterling balance I have a formal portrait of Grand Admiral D önitz kicking around somewhere just for thi...
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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Postblogging Technology, October 1949, II: Revolt of the Admirals

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This where I remind everyone that Admiral Air Power here lost two carrier battles before Leyte Gulf. R_.C_., Ngar Monastery, Shigatse...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

Postblogging Technology, October 1949, I: The Missing Jetliners of 1951

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The street outside my place at 8am on Wednesday morning isn't dark because Vancouver is so dark in the winter. It's dark because ...
Sunday, January 12, 2020

Postblogging Technology, October 1949, I: Land of the Pale Earth

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R_. C_., Sangaylay Palace, Leh, India Dear Father: I hope that this reaches you before you leave for the high country, sinc...
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Sunday, January 5, 2020

The Bishops' Sea: St. Sunniva, Pray for Us

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Sunniva was the sister of St. Alban , the British protomarty, executed sometime between 209AD and 305AD for being a Christian pain in the...
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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...
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