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, December 28, 2024

The Fall of Rome, VI: Flying Canoes and Revolutionary Santas

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  There's nothing to discourage a guy from amateur FallofRomeism than the "Men think about Rome a lot" thing of a few years ba...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Postblogging Technology, September 1954, I: A Theory of Capital Goods Might Be Just The Thing!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: So let this be a lesson to everyone. If you're ever tempted to make friends with a n...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVII: Ahousat/Huelva

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 Let's see how far we can push this.  Huelva from orbit, and a satellite map of Ahousaht from Google. The conjoint estuaries of the Odie...
Sunday, December 8, 2024

The Early Iron Age Rise of the State, XXVI: Yet Another Questionable Historical Comparison

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  Whatever else can be said about making an analogy between the coming of iron to the Mediterranean basin sometime between when we want to s...
Saturday, November 30, 2024

Postblogging Technology, August 1954, II: Mambomania

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R_.C_., Lake House, Nakusp, Canada Dear Father: You will see that I have, once again, not covered The Engineer and Aviation Week, and will, ...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Postblogging Technology, August 1954, I: Alert and Eureka

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R_.C_.,  The Lakehouse, Twenty-five hundred years after the invention of the Chinese abacus, this abacus-like device has turned up on the fr...
Saturday, November 16, 2024

The Electric City, VII: Normalising Telegraphy

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  So, and as will come as no surprise, I've had the experience of a short work week pulled out from under my feet at something like the ...
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