The first known use of the word "computer" was 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. The word continued with the same meaning until the middle of the 20th century. From the end of the <answer>19th century</answer> the word began to take on its more familiar meaning, a machine that carries out computations.
From the end of what century, did the word "computer" take its well known meaning of today?
19th century