1963-1964: Computer mouse

     Late 1963: Douglas Engelbart, founder and director of the Augmented Human Intellect Research Center at Stanford Research Institute, conceives of a device to more easily move a cursor around a computer screen. (Source: "Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing," Thierry Bardini, 2000; link: @)

     1964: Bill English, a computer engineer working with Engelbart, builds a "mouse" prototype.

     1965: The term "mouse" would first be used in "Computer-Aided Display Control," a paper by Engelbart, English and Bonnie Huddart.

     December 9, 1968: The mouse is demonstrated publicly for the first time.

     -- Image from MouseSite (linked below)

* "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" (Engelbart, 1962): @

* "Computer-Aided Display Control": @

* "Father of the mouse" (from Doug Engelbart Institute): @

* "History in pictures" (from Doug Engelbart Institute): @

* "1963: Douglas Engelbart Invents the Mouse" (from University of California Berkeley College of Engineering): @

* MouseSite (from Stanford University): @

* Mouse patent (application 1967, approval 1970): @

* "Computer Mouse and Interactive Computing" (from SRI International, formerly Stanford Research Institute): @

* Engelbart entry from Computer History Museum: @

* Mouse entry from Computer History Museum: @

* Video of 1968 demonstration: @

* Engelbart obituary (New York Times, 2013): @ 

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