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.

Monday, January 31, 2022

Postblogging Technology, October 1951, 2: The Seawolf

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I bet you had given up on this ever coming! I choose to blame Stanford and the BCG tuber...
Saturday, January 22, 2022

Postblogging Technology, October 1951, I: Battle is Joined

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: It appears that I was overconfident in telling you that I would have my magazines in ha...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

Seals, the Floating Proletariat, and Indigeneity: From the Bass Strait Backwards

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Hurrah! Our staff is up to complement, and I am able to defy the Omnicron Directive and start having days off again. I had thought to talk a...
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Friday, January 7, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: Islands in the Helix

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  (The Canaries have a great deal of volcanic tuft that makes it relatively easy to dig out a cave sanctuary or necropolis, something that o...
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Sunday, January 2, 2022

Postblogging Technology, September 1961, II: Production Bottlenecks

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  R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I hope this finds you well. You will be glad to know that I followed your advice and ...
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Saturday, December 25, 2021

Postblogging Technology, September 1951, I: The Age of Inflation

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, you can see that the distractions of  setting up housekeeping, motherhood, my hus...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging, July and August 1951: The Avon State

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  Way back in the 28 July number, The Economist wrung its hands, as The Economist was wont to do, over the aero-engine problem. This is a pr...
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