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, March 31, 2024

Postblogging Technology, December 1953, I: The Louche Years Begin

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  R_., C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Thank you for the tickets, which we received on Monday. I have no idea how you found...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

A Socio-Technological Preface to Postblogging Technology, Decemer 1953: The Louche Years

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I started the first installment of December technological postblogging yesterday before deciding that I was a bit too spent from the work we...
Saturday, March 16, 2024

Boom: The Space Race, 1

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  Everyone has a first public event they remember, and for me, it is the live television broadcast of the landing of Apollo 9. I was a bit y...
Saturday, March 9, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1952, II: Around the Gyrotron

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 The biggest industrial and technological story of this week is the collision of ongoing talk about civil defence or continental air defence...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

Postblogging Technology, November 1953, II: Calamity White

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R_C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I know that you're going to call me a flighty girl for saying it, but the biggest tec...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

Postblogging Technology, November 1953, I: Kulturkampf

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: An update from London, where yours truly continues to look for something to do that isn...
Friday, February 16, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1953: Transducer Days

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  With the very low key add for the IBM 650 ,  "the first mass--produced computer in the world,"we take another big step in the di...
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