More on Douglas Engelbart and the mouse!

Mr. Engelbart

Mr. Engelbart worked on the mouse with Bill English, a scientist at SRI. While, Mr. Engelbart was a computer scientist at the Stanford Research Institute. Mr. Engelbart says that Bill English is the one who actually built the mouse, though they both thought of the idea together.


The First Mouse!

The first mouse was carved out of wood and motion was tracked by two wheels on the bottom. The first mouse resembled the real rodent because of the "body" and the cord coming out the bottom, which look like a tail. The scientists inventing the mouse, nicknamed it that while developing this vital object in the lab, and the name stuck.