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, September 24, 2020

Postblogging Technology, June 1950, I: No Coke

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( Walter Paepcke   ) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: You will have heard from Uncle George, but I'm still going to ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1950: "No Way Out"

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 Well, the UBC Library system has taken the perfectly reasonable and in no way money-saving step of extending its whole library-free univers...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1950: Jetliner Dreams

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  Early jets tended to lack a bit of oomph coming off the runway. I've covered the outline of the early passenger jet here before. The D...
Wednesday, September 2, 2020

Postblogging Technology, May 1950, II: Is The World Warming Up?

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: Not much to report from steamy Formosa, where all the news is about Koumintang evacua...
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Travel Notes, II: Tashme

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 Here I am, back at my comfortable computer station in Vancouver, as from 9:40 last night. With the ergonomic issues --and the fatigue that ...
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Sunday, August 23, 2020

Travel Notes: Thoughts on Sugarloaf Summit

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 The Crow's Nest Highway, Number 3, along which I stumbled and bumbled on my vacation last summer presents the Hope-Princeton as the fi...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

Postblogging Technology, May 1950, I: Counting Down

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R_., C., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, it's definite. No Reds. Just like Uncle George said at Thanksgiving, the  typ...
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