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, February 23, 2025

Postblogging Technology, November 1954: Buy Now, Pay Later!

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Since James and I are a bit worried about our letters being intercepted, I will answer a...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Aswan and Wittfogel: A Technological and History of Technology Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1954

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Britannica. Which lifted it from Shutterstock, how the mighty have fallen, etc.  The Aswan high dam is one of the biggest dams in the worl...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Postblogging Technology, October 1954, II: The Miracle of Transistors

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: We have had an exciting few weeks as various European diplomatic efforts and one America...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1954: Microelectronics and Music

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  "Micro" indeed. The screencap is the first size comparison for the proximity fuze I've ever seen, which is why I took the sc...
Sunday, January 26, 2025

Postblogging Technology, October 1954, I: Brain Child in Long Pants

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: It seems as though I will be writing a fairly short note this week with very little to s...
Friday, January 17, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIX: Wood For Greeks

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 In the relatively small genre of modern scholarly syntheses of Classical literature and current (as of writing) archaeology on some specifi...
Friday, January 10, 2025

The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVIII: Quotidian Huelva

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 Let's round up this quotidian technology-reconstructed-from-debitage (and other garbage) thing.  I have it on the good authority of Car...
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