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, October 27, 2024

Postblogging Technology, July 1954, I: Red Meat and Free Men

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  Nurses of the Experimental Civil Defence Mobile Column like motorcycles. Do they get to ride  motorcycles, or is just their despatch rider...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1954, II: Just You Wait

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  Surely I'm not the only person who hears " [Henry] Wiggin Works " and thinks of My Fair Lady, the 1964 film adaptation of th...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1954: Gormenghast

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  Just kidding. Today I'm talking about the pioneering nuclear power plant, Calder Hall, not Mervyn Peake's weird 1950 novel about a...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Postblogging Technology, June 1954, II: We Have Met The Enemy And He Is Us

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R_C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: And that's the end of my month. If I may dwell on the political for a moment ( Moi? N...
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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