COMPUTERS
First Computer Invented
The first computer was invented by a man called Charles Babbage. He was also known as 'the father of computers'. It was created in 1822.
In 1837, Charles Babbage proposed the first general mechanical computer. Unfortunatly, because of the funding issues, the computer was never built during Charles Babbages lifetime.
In 1910 Henry Babbage, Charle's youngest son, was able to build a portion of the machine and it as able to perform some basic calculations.
Charles Babbage
First Computer invented
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The First Mouse
The first mouse was invented by an inventor called Douglas Engelbart, he was assited with a man called Bill English. It was developed in the 1960's, and was patented on the 17th November 1970.
Douglas invented the mouse in 1963, when he was working at the Stanford Research Institute(now SRI international) with Bill English.
Douglas Engelbart
BORN: 30th January 1925
DIED: 2nd July 2013
INFLUENCED BY: Vannevar Bush, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Alfred Korzybski
SPOUSE: Ballard Engelbart (m. 1951-1997) Karen O'Leary (m.2008)
CHILDREN: Christina Engelbart, Norman Engelbart, Gerda Engelbart, Diana Engelbart.
Bill English
The basic idea of the came to Douglas in 1961 when he was satin a conference session on computer graphics. It occured to him that using a pair of wheelscovering a tabletop; one wheel moving horizontily and the other wheel moving vertically. The computer could track their combined rotations and move the curser on the display board accordingly.
First Mouse Invented To A Modern Mac Computer Mouse
Facebook is a social networking app and it was launched in 4th February 2004. It was invented by a guy called Mark Zuckerburg with his college friends and fellow Harvey University student, Eduardo Saverin.