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.

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1953: The Columbia River Treaty

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  Hugh Keenleyside (High Arrow) Dam, Castlegar, British Columbia Renata, British Columbia, is a lost town on the right bank of the Columbia ...
Saturday, November 18, 2023

A Medico-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1953: Heart-Lung Machines and Autopilots

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  I guess it won't surprise anyone that Port Alice didn't have a movie theatre, so I saw most of the movies that shaped us Gen Xers ...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

Postblogging Technology, July 1953, II: Purge

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  R_.C_., Oriental Club, London, England Dear Father: We're not completely out of the news around here. We have shortwave. What we'v...
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Sunday, November 5, 2023

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIX: Lazy Sunday Outline with Premonitions of Mortality

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 Two things, first, a very late change of schedule; second, a scary moment at the Silver Kettle Lodge as my 92-year-old father seemed to be ...
Sunday, October 29, 2023

Postblogging Technology, July 1953, I: Calm Morning

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R_.C_., Oriental Club, London, England Dear Father: I feel like one of those insufferable country correspondents prattling on about the seas...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

A Technological and Political Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1953 With No Public Engagement Whatsoever: Willow Run and Dien Bien Phu

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 Well, I might well be on strike next week, and I certainly have split single days off this week. And that can only mean one thing. A Techno...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2023

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1953: A New Era of Strategic Bombing?

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  My first niece-in-law chose this for her wedding processional. For relevance see note! The reader will probably be tired of my half-assed ...
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