Douglas Engelbart's original 1970 patent diagram for the computer mouse resurfaces
pickover · x · 2026-09-09
Science writer Clifford Pickover shared Douglas Engelbart's actual patent diagram for the computer mouse, granted November 17, 1970. The drawing shows the original X-Y position indicator design — the mechanical two-wheel scheme that became the ancestor of every modern mouse.
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