FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Development of the mouse began in the early 1960s by SRI International’s Douglas Engelbart, while he was exploring the interactions between humans and computers. Bill English, then the chief engineer at SRI, built the first computer mouse prototype in 1964. Designs with multiple buttons soon followed.

Detailed explanation-2: -Engelbart applied for a patent in 1967 and received it in 1970, for the wooden shell with two metal wheels (computer mouse – U.S. Patent 3, 541, 541), which he had developed with Bill English, his lead engineer, sometime before 1965.

Detailed explanation-3: -Douglas Engelbart, (born January 30, 1925, Portland, Oregon, U.S.-died July 2, 2013, Atherton, California), American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse, the development of the basic graphical user interface (GUI), and groupware. Engelbart won the 1997 A.M.