Engelbart mouse patent drawings

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Date
1968 ca.
Keywords
Graphical User Interface (GUI); Pointing
Object ID
500004529

The word “mouse” does not appear in Engelbart’s patent for the computer pointing device that became ubiquitous within 20 years. The knife-edged wheels each rolled in just one direction, transmitting movement information for that direction. Each slid without turning when the mouse was moved in the other direction.