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It feels weird today that the word “Computer” was used to describe humans who performed computing tasks!
From Wikipedia:
The first use of the word “computer” was recorded in 1613 in a book called “The yong mans gleanings” by English writer Richard Braithwait –
I haue read the truest computer of Times, and the best Arithmetician that euer breathed, and he reduceth thy dayes into a short number.
It referred to a person who carried out calculations, or computations, and the word continued with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th century. From the end of the 19th century the word began to take on its more familiar meaning, a machine that carries out computations.
BTW, that US $1000 of 1892 would be worth about US $25540 in 2013 as per this calculator.
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