Of mice and men . . .

Re-inventing the wheel!


If we are truthful, most of us think that Mr Jobs and Apple Computers were the inventors of the modern mouse; but it turns out we would be wrong. The inventor was, apparently, one Douglass Engelbart. Of course, without Apple, IBM, Bill Gates and others who popularized the PC, this mouse would not have gotten so well-established. Or perhaps it really is the other way round. Anyway, the modern mouse has not only increased in number, but they are now available in designs of great variety!

Just look here!

Now, with not much imagination, if I had said to you, "Have you ever seen a mouse on a wheel?", you would have said, "Of course!"

You know, like this:




But what about a wheel on a mouse? Well, these days, that is nothing less than the standard! So much the standard, that from the perspective of revolutionary technological leaps, it brings together one ancient with one modern ground-breaking invention.

Of course, why should only humans have fun.

Here is a mouse who (for his chutzpah, we shall honor him with this pronoun, as if he were a "person") has re-engineered the frog -

and as Louis the XIVth used to say, "After me? The flood!"
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Image Acknowledgements: 1 the animated "mouse on wheel" comes from an education resource website: Discoveryschool.com who specify the following - Discoveryschool.com must be credited, use is not for profit, and includes a link to the Discoveryschool.com Web site. Credit must read - "Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com". 2 "Mouse on frog" from National Geographic News.