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But the end result was, as Leo Marx recognized, a ‘semantic void’, ‘the lack of enough language to seize the dramatic modifications within the material tradition of the era’. My last contention is that thinking about scale presents a way of reinvigorating the historical past, sociology and even philosophy of technology in ways in which additionally directly invite the work of historians of science. Historians of science have paid consideration to many things which scale , although it is telling that we do not have a word for the final category, suggesting that there's a gap for more common and deeper evaluation. Likewise, historians of technology have gravitated to descriptions of scale – think for example of accounts of world systems, or the Tensions of Europe project , or studies of nanotechnology – without explicitly and relatively analyzing a key term. Technologies, particularly scientific devices, concurrently invoke and substantiate scales. There is the opening right here