American scientist Douglas Engelbart, the invention of the mouse is not directly related to the mouse.
The mouse was invented in 1964. In the early 1960s, while attending a meeting, he casually took out his notebook (not a laptop) and drew a sketch of a device that uses two mutually perpendicular wheels at the bottom to track movements. This is the mouse. prototype. By 1964, Douglas Engelbart once again perfected the concept of this device and produced the first finished product. Douglas Engelbart is also known as the "Father of the Mouse."
There was no "mouse" as a name at the time. The new device was a small wooden box with two scroll wheels but only one button. Its working principle is that the roller drives the shaft to rotate and causes the rheostat to change its resistance. The change in resistance generates a displacement signal. After processing by the computer, the cursor indicating the position on the screen can move.
Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues nicknamed it "Mouse" in the laboratory because the device dragged a long string like a mouse (like a mouse's tail). At that time, he also thought that the mouse might be widely used in the future, so he named it "Display System X-Y Position Indicator" when applying for a patent. However, people felt that the name "Mouse" was more familiar, so the "Mouse" " title.
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