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Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in the 1960s while working at Stanford Research Institute. The mouse has two buttons and a scroll wheel to move the on-screen cursor and select or move items. Over 216 million computers are sold each year, most including a mouse. Engelbart received a patent for his "X-Y position indicator" mouse in 1970 and made pioneering contributions to human-computer interaction and networked computing.

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Input Device Essay

Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse in the 1960s while working at Stanford Research Institute. The mouse has two buttons and a scroll wheel to move the on-screen cursor and select or move items. Over 216 million computers are sold each year, most including a mouse. Engelbart received a patent for his "X-Y position indicator" mouse in 1970 and made pioneering contributions to human-computer interaction and networked computing.

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Input device essay

This essay is on the mouse. In this essay I will be typing about the use of the

mouse, when it was made and who invented it.


The uses of the mouse are that mice have two buttons and a scroll wheel. A computer
mouse is an input device that is most often used with a personal computer. Moving a mouse
along a flat surface can move the on-screen cursor to different items on the screen.

Items can be moved or selected by pressing the mouse buttons called clicking.

Doug Engelbart invented the computer mouse in the early 1960s in his research lab at
Stanford Research Institute now SRI International. The first prototype was built in 1964,
the patent application for this "X-Y position indicator for a display system" was filed in
1967, and US Patent 3,541,541 was awarded in 1970. And the first computer was invented
in the early 19th centuries. How many computer mice are sold each year? This year about
216,947,664 computers are sold and rising.
Who is Doug Engelbart? Douglas Carl Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor,
and an early computer and Internet pioneer.
Doug Engelbart was born on January 30, 1925, Portland, Oregon, United States
Doug Engelbart died on July 2, 2013, Atherton, California, United States
Doug Engelbart had fielding in Humancomputer interaction, Invention

Doug Engelbard had four children Christina Engelbart, Norman Engelbart, Gerda Engelbart
and Diana Engelbart.

In conclusion this is my essay for input devices and Doug Engelbart

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