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.

Friday, April 30, 2021

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging January, 1951 With Bonus Public Engagement Content: Hometown Titanium

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  The North American F-100 Super Sabre was the first of the Century Series fighters, although the design had a shorter path to production t...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Postblogging Technology, January 1951, 2: Titanium Days

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(Dean Martin imitating Bing Crosby ) R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: As predicted, the Communist advances in Annam and ...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Postblogging Technology, January 1951, I: Loyalty Oaths

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R. _C._, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Here we are, back in beleaguered (they say?) Formosa, resuming our so-vitally important...
Saturday, April 10, 2021

Robert Mundell is Dead: A Mixed-Economy Recap to December 1950 with a Look Forward Six Years

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  On the one hand, the (Canadian-born, UBC-educated) "Father of Supply Side Economics" died last week. On the other, December of 1...
Friday, April 2, 2021

The Early Iron Age Rise of the State: From the Sublime to the Perishable?

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 You know the pattern by now. We have two weeks of drilling into the peak of the last, decaying maxima of the past-present wave as it moves ...
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Saturday, March 27, 2021

Postblogging Technology, December 1950, II: Christmas Corps

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  R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I write, curled up in an alcove overlooking the front, replete with a post-Christmas ...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Postblogging Technology, December 1950, I: Crisis!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: This comes to you probably just a few hours before I leave for Macao for Christmas, prob...
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