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.

Monday, September 30, 2024

Postblogging Technology, June 1954, I: Wandering

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The soundtrack of my childhood has some odd entries R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: You can hardly miss the story of my ...
Friday, September 20, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging, May 1954: Transatlantic Conversation, Hurrah!

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  This is actually going back a bit, but Mossad has done a naughty telephone thing this week, and while Teleanswerphone was operating a page...
Saturday, September 14, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, May 1954: Project Tinkertoy

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  Scraped from an ad: https://snapklik.com/en-ca/product/tinkertoy-30-model-200-piece-super-building-set-preschool-learning-educational-toy-...
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Postblogging Technology, May 1954, II: Four Minute Mile

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R_. C._, Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: We are finally caught up with the news from the Empire Games. Roger Bannister has run a...
Sunday, September 1, 2024

A Vacation Week Short That Is Also A Sacred Spring Contribution: Hurrians, Mitanni, and Owning Land

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 I am just back from a cycling vacation in which I finally rode the Okanagan Rail Trail from Kelowna to Vernon. This turns out to be a trick...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Postblogging Technology, May 1954, I: The Fall of Dien Bien Phu

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I shall be brief here as I am finding myself excitingly indispensable at work as the avi...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Postblogging Technology, April 1954, II: Lewis Strauss's Boom

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  R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Maybe  Newsweek has it garbled, as it often does? Or perhaps this is  the TX-16 "Emergency" cryogenic bomb...
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