HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY

Did you know? The first computer mouse was made of...

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In this 'modern' age, it will be quite unbelievable if a person, especially the youth population, were to say he/she doesn't know what a computer mouse is. Pretty much everyone knows. And another thing everyone knows, which of course arises from mere observation of the mouse, is that the mouse (not entirely though) is made from plastic.

But was it always like that? Well, surprisingly not.

As we go back in the pages of history, it turns out that the very first mouse was made of a different material.

In case you didn't know, an American engineer and inventor Douglas Engelbart (1925 - 2013) is credited to have invented the computer mouse and in 1964, with the help of another American computer engineer Bill English (1929 - 2020), Engelbart developed the very first computer mouse. And guess what? Different from the material used in the design of today, It was made out of wood!

Douglas Engelbart


Bill English


It was rectangular in shape, featured a little button on the top right and had two wheels used to roll back and forth.

And later on, computer mouse designs which featured not only a change in the material used but also the addition of multiple buttons followed.

So there you have it; the knowledge of what the first mouse was made of. Did you know this before? What did you think it was when you just started reading from the beginning of this post?

[1st picture below: a regular modern mouse]

[2nd picture below: Douglas Engelbart holding the first computer mouse, showing the wheels that make contact with the working surface.]

[3rd picture below: another view of what the earliest computer mouse looks like.]

Photo credits: Wikipedia, Google.

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