COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
Bill Gates
|
|
|
Martin Cooper
|
|
|
Charles Babbage
|
|
|
Douglas Engelbart
|
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: -Left:Douglas Engelbart and Bill English invented the mouse–then named the “Bug”–in 1964, and created this chunky, beautiful wooden device to demonstrate the concept. Pictured here is a replica at Albuquerque’s Startup museum exhibit .
Detailed explanation-3: -The basic idea for the mouse first came to him in 1961 while sitting in a conference session on computer graphics, his mind mulling over the challenge of making interactive computing more efficient.