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.

Saturday, December 26, 2020

Postblogging Technology, September 1950, 2: Pee Before You Go!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: September rolls to its end, and with it the peasants' attempt to challenge the migh...
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Saturday, December 19, 2020

Postblogging Technology, September 1950, I: "This Calls for Champagne All Around"

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Here's  your friendly letter from the frontlines of the war-to-come, the land of cam...
Friday, December 11, 2020

The Bishop's Sea: Caithness and the Matter of Alba

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 So speaking of odd threads dangling out of the whole story of Greenland, how about the "Sinclairs of Greenland and Rattar"? This ...
Friday, December 4, 2020

A Techno-Cultural Appendix to Postblogging Technology, August 195): Christmas at Last!

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  (Because there weren't any big Christmas songs charting in December of 1950, although see below) Whenever I put a hyphen after "T...
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Postblogging Technology, August 1950, II: The Marines Are Here

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada  Dear Father: I hope I didn't give the wrong impression last week. I am not some daring aviatrix...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Postblogging Technology, August 1950, I: Pirate Business

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you for stepping in with the Junior College. I return my completed application fo...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1950: Tactical Nuclear Weapons

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  The M-29 "Davy Crockett Weapon System" is, understandably, the most famous American recoilless rifle of the Cold War era.  Becau...
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