Douglas Engelbart's Computer Mouse Invention

 Engelbart grew up during the Great Depression on a small farm in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from high school in 1942 before studying Electrical Engineering at Oregon State University. He stopped for a time after joining the Navy during World War II, and he served for two years as an electronic/radar technician in the Philippines. He completed his Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1948 and went to work in San Francisco as an electrical engineer at NACA Ames Laboratory (the forerunner of NASA). Feeling dissatisfied and convinced that there was something more important he should be doing, he considered what he had read about the development of the computer and turned his attention to how it might be used to support mankind's efforts to solve various problems. As a radar technician, he had seen how information could be displayed on a screen, and he envisioned people sitting in front of displays, working in an information space where they could formulate and organize their ideas with incredible speed and flexibility. He therefore applied to the graduate program in Electrical Engineering at U.C. Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. in 1955 and also received half a dozen patents in "bista

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ementers, and deployers of these tools and practices. In 1963, he finally started his own research lab, which he later named the Augmentation Research Center, and he began to develop the kind of technology he believed would be required to augment our human intellect. In the 60s and 70s, his lab pioneered an elaborate hypermediagroupware system called NLS (for oNLine System), most of whose nowcommon features were conceived of, fully integrated, and in everyday operational use by the early 1970s. NLS was first demonstrated in public at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Conference, and this was the debut of the mouse, hypermedia, and onscreen video teleconferencing (Engelbart). Engelbart's inventions were ahead of their time and were only adapted after the passage of time; they have since been integrated into the mainstream. Apple Macintosh popularized the mouse beginning in 1984. Today, every computer uses a mouse in some form. Engelbart also had the conception for what would become windows, and this has also become a virtual necessity. Byte magazine honored the twenty persons who have had the greatest impact on personal computing and included Engelbart, of whom the magazine said, "Comparisons with Thomas Edison do not seem fa
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