In 1965, Doug Engelbart (see tab on People of the Mouse– http://historyoftech.mcclurken.org/mouse/people/the-people-of-the-mouse/) and his team of 17 other researchers showcased and debuted the mouse at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California [1]. Most important of the technological inventions  introduced at this event was the computer mouse, debuted in a 90-minute presentation attended by some 1,000 computer professionals [2]. This presentation would later become known as the “Mother of

Engelbart’s small research teams worked at display stations to experiment with different devices that would work to display objects on screen. These teams constructed several kinds of prototypes that featured a moving cursor that could select something on screen, but even this did not satisfy Engelbart’s desire for something even more efficient, or “high-performance” [1]. After his idea about a small device that the movement of wheels, when sent to the

The normalcy of the computer mouse as an everyday object  and household name perhaps prevents people from wondering at the history of its invention [1]. This page aims to explore how Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the computer mouse, conceptualized and executed its invention. (See People of the Mouse for more specific information on http://historyoftech.mcclurken.org/mouse/people/the-people-of-the-mouse/). The idea for the computer mouse first came to Doug Engelbart in 1961 as he