Who invented the computer mouse?

The computer mouse was invented in 1963 at the Stanford Research Institute, USA, by Dr. Douglas Engelbart, and developed by the Xerox Corporation in the 1970s. The first was made of wood; the Microsoft mouse was introduced in 1983, and the Apple Macintosh mouse in 1984.

Douglas Engelbart invented or contributed to several interactive, user-friendly devices: the computer mouse, windows, computer video teleconferencing, hypermedia, groupware, email, the Internet, and more.

In 1964, the first prototype computer mouse was made to use with a graphical user interface (GUI), ‘windows’. Engelbart received a patent for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse U.S. Patent # 3,541,541) in 1970, describing it in the patent application as an “X-Y position indicator for a display system.” It was nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out at the end.

Douglas Engelbart was awarded the 1997 Lemelson-MIT Prize of $500,000, the world’s largest single prize for invention and innovation. In 1998, he was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

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