Douglas Engelbart is an American computer scientist who is widely known as the inventor of the computer mouse.

In the early 1960s, Engelbart was working on a project at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) to improve the way people interacted with computers. He developed a system that allowed users to control a computer cursor by moving a mouse around on a desktop.

This early version of the computer mouse was made from wood and had a wire attached to it. The user would move the mouse around on the desktop to control the cursor on the screen.

In 1968, Engelbart …