Douglas Engelbart
Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart around 1964 but the trackball was invented earlier;sometime in the 1950s
According to Wikipedia: "... Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute invented the first mouse prototype in 1963..." You can read more about how the mouse and its refinements came into broad use, below.
It was made in 1964 by Doug Engelbart.
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The first commercial computer was invented in 1964 by Engineer Pier Giorgio Perotto of Olivetti. The device was named Programma 101.
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It did not just show up out of the blue. It was actually invented in and around the year 1964, and patented by a man named Doug Engelbart. Bill English is given credit as a joint inventor.Doug Engelbart was a man way ahead of his time. His invention of the mouse was created in his research lab which he opened in 1963. Although he invented the first mouse 1n 1964, it was not adapted for general use until the 1980s, when Apple Computers was the first company to put them with their computers.Dr. Douglas Engelbart also brought us some other essential computer-related things. The related questions tie them in
Well the first mouse was invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor, but the design was not patented.Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute invented the wheel-based mouse in 1963. The first ball-based mouse was invented by Bill English at Xerox PARC in 1972.Douglas Engelbart
Mouse - computing - was created in 1964.
* COMPUTER MOUSE (1964) * INTERNET (1973) * MICROSOFT (1975) * CDs (1980) * Post it Notes (1980) * The Space Shuttle (1981) * The V-Chip (1995) * DVDs (1995)
Some of his main inventions include the computer mouse, windows, computer video teleconferencing, hypermedia, groupware, email, the internet and more. ~student of THS
The first desktop computer was produced by an Italian company Olivetti. It launched at the New York World's Fair in 1964 and sold for $3,200.