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, August 28, 2022

Summer Trip and a Book: Reza Aslan's Zealot In Ranch Country

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 Sometime during his Christmas, 2013 visit to his sister, just as his mental decline was getting in the way of his packrat intellectual curi...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1952, I: No Fatigue Yet

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  I am leaving for my annual bike ride across the mountains to Grand Forks, the improbably remote location of my hermit Dad's old folks ...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Postblogging Technology, May 1952, II: Turbo House

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: After two-and-a-half years since my diphtheria quarantine, the Palo Alto post office ha...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Postblogging Technology, April 1952, II: Staydown Strike!

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I talk about the Fairchild crash a bit more below, but with all the aviation safety n...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Postblogging Technology, April 1952, I: Metal Fatigue

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R._. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I am always kicking myself for getting these letters off late, and so last week I was ...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

A Technical, But Not At All Technological, Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1952: Pound Sterling But Also Energy

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  That was weird. So much for more talk about the Comet this week! (After a planned week off from work collapsed due to labour churn, befor...
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Saturday, July 9, 2022

A Technical Appendix About Airplane Crashes and Revisiting the Great Siege With Derek Leebaert

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  Per Wikipedia: Derek Leebaert  is an American technology executive and management consultant who writes books on history and politics, whi...
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