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"Themes that are highlighted include :

• the role of language : the models developed for engineering design have resulted in new ways of talking about technological systems
• communities of practice : related to the previous point, particular engineering communities have particular ways of sharing and developing knowledge
• graphical (re)presentation : engineers have developed many ways of reducing quite complex mathematical models to more simple representations
• reification : highly abstract mathematical models are turned into ‘objects’ that can be manipulated almost like components of a physical system
• machines : not only the currently ubiquitous digital computer, but also older analogue devices, slide rules, physical models, wind tunnels and other small-scale simulators, as well as mechanical, electrical and electronic analogue computers
• mathematics and modelling as a bridging tool between disciplines

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