Computer mouse
Ratón de ordenador
- Date
- 1964 · confidence high
- Place
- SRI International, Menlo Park, California, United States
- Credited to
- Douglas Engelbart and Bill English (SRI); presented at the Mother of All Demos (1968)
- People
- 👤 Bill English1961–👤 Douglas Engelbart1925–2013
- Field
- Tools
What it is
A handheld device that translates movement across a desk into cursor position on screen. It made direct interaction with graphical objects possible.
The first commercial ball mouse was made by Telefunken (1968).
What it led to
- The graphical user interface and computing for non-experts
- The personal computer as an office tool
- The touch and gestural interfaces that replaced it
Built on
- Sketchpad, computer-aided design and interactive graphics1963
- trackball
- light pen