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.

Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVI: A Bronze Age/Iron Age Transition in the Maghreb?

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  So, three things: i) There is no way that I am not posting this ad, especially the week I read Edith Outland on " the Effingham libel...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Postblogging Technology, October 1952, I: The Public Interest

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"Canon," it turns out, is the Japanese form of Guanyin, Bodhisattva of Mercy. Gung Hey Fat Choy! R_.,C., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, C...
Saturday, January 14, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, 1943--1952: Uhm, The Electric Typewriter?

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  I was going through my folder of ads looking for a typewrite ad specifically when I found this. (Truth in advertising: I was going in alph...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

The Iron Age Revival of the State, XXV, With Bonus Gathering the Bones Content: Shining New City on a Hill

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  Queen Dido of Carthage has come up in this blog in two very different contexts. First, "an urn said to contain the ashes of Dido...
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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Postblogging Technology, September 1952, II: Well, When?

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Well, here I am back in Palo Alto the good, having missed the first two weeks of classe...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

The Bishop's Sea: St. Nicholas

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  St. Nicholas, Washington Irving tells us, was first seen by a Dutch scouting party checking out Manhattan. Shipwrecked on its shores, the...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

Postblogging Technology, September 1952, I: Vixen Crash

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: We are in a little hotel just outside of Maastricht, which I know was not in our itiner...
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