Douglas C Engelbart

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Douglas C. Engelbart invented the computer mouse, and though most computer users do not know his name, they certainly know of his creatio

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"Douglas C. Engelbart invented the computer mouse, and though most computer users do not know his name, they certainly know of his creation. This is not his only contribution to technology, however, and he has been an important theorist and inventor for more than four decades.


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..."

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