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.

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Pentomic: A Technical But Actually Sociological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, April 1955, I

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  Detail of 1779 chorographical map of New York (including chorographical details of adjacent parts of New Jersey but evidently not those of...
Monday, July 21, 2025

Postblogging Technology, April 1955, I: I Don't Even Know What Secrecy Is, Any More

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R_.C., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: I'm having a bit of a mix-up with my magazines, which I am sure I will have sorted ou...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Postblogging Technology, March 1955, II: Detroit's Battle of the Century

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Tony Randall as sex symbol is the perfect lead into the musical act that closes the thumbnail below.   R_. C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Cana...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

U-Bomb: A Technical Prologue to Postblogging Technology, March 1955, II

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 Yeah, well, I was tired yesterday and I needed to do some bike training (mainly wearing calluses into my tender tootsie) ahead of my summer...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

UB.109T: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, March 1955

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  So my boss is on his annual pilgrimage to the Old Continent to show everybody that he's a big shot in Canada, and we're training y...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Postblogging Technology, March 1954, I: Hard Money, Hard Plastics, Hard Men

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R_.C_., Shaughnessy, Vancouver, Canada Dear Father: Here in London the winter of our discontent is rushing to an end. The Economist is at it...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Fireflash and Sparrow: A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, February 1955

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  This post is about the contemporary British Fireflash and American Sparrow beam-riding air-to-air missiles, so of course there is a perfec...
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