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The first mouse plugged into its display workstation, circa 1964 from dougengelbart.org.
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Engelbart's prototype of a computer mouse, as designed by Bill English from Engelbart's sketches.
On June 27, 1967 electrical engineer and inventor Douglas C. Engelbart of the Augmentation Research Center at SRI filed a patent for an X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System. The device was covered on patent 3,541,541 granted on November 17, 1970. It eventually became known as the Mouse.
