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.

Monday, March 30, 2020

An Economic-Technological Appendix to Postblogging, Winter 1947: Shutdown

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UBC Library is currently closed, 'cuz there's nothing that says social mingling and contagion like old books. The decision will be ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

An Epidemiological-Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, 1943--49: The Iron Lung

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I'm not a medical kind of guy, so I've mostly stayed away from the human sciences side of things in these technological appendice...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, December 1949,II: Fun with Uranium

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As we've been hearing, during a 1 November 1949 television interview about, ironically enough, the need for more atomic secrecy, Sen...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Postblogging Technology,December 1949, II: Blue Christmas

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(Swapped for "Blue Christmas" below, because I have a legit excuse to lead off with Lead Belly.) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, ...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Postblogging Technology, December 1949, I: Down Canberra Way

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I am glad that this finds  you home in the heights above Quilchena Park, ...
Saturday, February 29, 2020

Postblogging Technology, November 1949, II: Atom Bombs, Radars and GREEN MACE

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In November of 1949 we saw a bit of an "AA" renaissance. Wartime AA chief, Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Pile (Bart)'s boo...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Postblogging Technology, November 1949, II:

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R_. C_., The Alexander Young Hotel, Oahu, Hawaii. Dear Father: Hopefully this reaches you before you leave Hawaii. Not that it i...
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