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But the result was, as Leo Marx recognized , a ‘semantic void’, ‘the lack of enough language to seize the dramatic modifications within the materials tradition of the era’. My last competition is that thinking about scale provides a means of reinvigorating the history, sociology and even philosophy of technology in ways that also immediately invite the work of historians of science. Historians of science have paid consideration to many things which scale , although it is telling that we don't have a word for the final class, suggesting that there's an opening for extra basic and deeper analysis. Likewise, historians of know-how have gravitated to descriptions of scale – think for example of accounts of global methods, or the Tensions of Europe project , or studies of nanotechnology – with out explicitly and relatively inspecting a key term. For engineers, especially American engineers, ‘applied science’, along with its higher standing, might be claimed as their own autonomou