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.

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Postblogging Technology, April 1951, I: Shoppers Showing Signs of Stress Fatigue

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R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I feel a little silly handing this off to the courier so I can catch my flight to Vanco...
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Gathering the Bones, XXIX: Sons and Daughters

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  A little something for a lazy Saturday afternoon, before we get back to exploring the dark and stagnant depths of the Eisenhower Administr...
Sunday, July 16, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1953: Cryptologic

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  Here's a simple question with a very frustrating lack of answer: When was the carcinotron deployed? Technically a carcinotron is a ba...
Monday, July 10, 2023

Postblogging Technology, March 1953, II: Searching for Savvy

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Per precise and urgent  instructions I have completed arrangements to store our househol...
Sunday, July 2, 2023

Postblogging Technology, March 1953, I: Death of Stalin

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R_.C_, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: What an exciting few weeks it has been. And what a terrible time to be a weekly news maga...
Saturday, June 24, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1953 with Bonus Old Man Ranting: Fuel Cells

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  In February of 1953, Engineering published on titanium, a swing-wing jet prototype , gas turbine locomotives, a proton synchrotron, and nu...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1953: Sluice Gates

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  I'm sorry, Dutch people, "Watersnoosdramp" reminds me of Futurama. This is a picture of Oude Tonge, on the island of Goeree...
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