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.

Sunday, October 31, 2021

Postblogging Technology, June 1951, II: Dies and Transistors

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R_. C_., Arcadia, Santa Clara, California Dear Father: Reggie is back in Formosa, as he wrote last time, so I have taken over the letter aga...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

Postblogging Technology, July 1951, I: To Be Born Into An Age Without Clerks

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R_. C_., Arcadia, Santa Clara, California Dear Father: Following on my telegram and my note in Mother's letter, I have quite a long one ...
Thursday, October 14, 2021

Postblogging Technology, June 1951, II: In The Time of the Magnet

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Magnets and electricity are funny things. The language of electromagnetism currently permeates our discourse. You think you know what you...
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Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Postblogging Technology, June 1951, with Bonus Political Thumbsucking: .280 British And Related Subjects

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  As the adrenaline leaks out of the Korean crisis, the technology question in June of 1951 is more clearly about boy toys than ever. The Un...
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Saturday, October 2, 2021

Postblogging Technology, June 1951, II: Let's Here More About Raw Material Controls!

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Wow ! R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada. Dear Father: Ronnie is in confinement. I promise a telegram as soon as we have word, but I ha...
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Friday, September 24, 2021

Postblogging Technology, June 1951, I: Ramping Up For Production

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Yes, yes, rest, no strain, blessed condition, all of that. Well! First of all, I am havi...
Sunday, September 19, 2021

The Bishop's Sea: Our Ongoing Project of Building a Better, Stronger Past

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  This may or may not be on me, but it turns out that I don't have Sunday off. I suspect that after wasting far too much time trying to ...
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