The Entomology Of A Word I chose to find the entomology of a word that most people can usually not go through a day without using at least once, computer. With the explosion of the personal computer in the last ten years, most households in America own at least one. However, the meaning of the word "computer" has changed in the last century. The word itself is found in text as far back as 1646 when Sir T. Brown said, "The calendars of these computers." The use of "computer" in this sense, as defined by the OED, is one who computes; a calculator, reckoner; a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc. Then, around 1897, the use of "computer" began to change. In the January 22 edition of Engineering, this usage appeared: "This was… a computer made by Mr. W. Cox. He described it as of the nature of a circular slide rule." This usage began t....

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