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, July 28, 2021

A Technosocio-educational History Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1951: The American Mind Is Closed For The Season

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  On 12 April 1951, the search committee of the board of trustees of the University of Chicago announced the replacement to Robert Hutchins ...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

Postblogging Technology, April 1951, II: Fade Away

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada William Chase Dear Father: This is  my delayed last, since in spite of the Siam Air Lines crash I am...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1951, I: Mad Science

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  I feel a bit out of my wheelhouse when it comes to the Medicine section of Time. Hoo-boy, those mid-century medical people, hunh? But the ...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Postblogging Technology, April 1951, I: Lost At Sea

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: I know that you probably expected to hear that I have landed safely in Macao by this t...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXII: Roman Britain's Window Into the Sacred Spring

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 The Roman Empire arrived in the United Kingdom in 43AD and left it in 408BC. These are relatively late and early dates compared with adjace...
Wednesday, June 23, 2021

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1951: Sound and Submarines

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  Ours Is An Age of Slowing Technological Change The restoration of the accumulated paid time off provisions of my collective agreement, com...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

Postblogging Technology, March 1951, II: No Affray

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I had yours of the 13th on the afternoon, and sent my condolences by telegram to Uncle H...
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