Touchscreen
Invention and innovation • 1965
Coming to Wonder Inventions on 29 October 2026.

About this story
- Subject
- Touchscreen
- Category
- Computing and Energy Inventions
- Where
- Global
- When
- Industrial Revolution to contemporary era
- Length
- 10 illustrated pages · about 15 minutes to read · about 11 minutes to listen
Who appears
- E.A. Johnson — Inventor
- Dr. Roger Davies — Engineer Colleague
- Major Thompson — Military Officer
- Dr. Samuel Hurst — Inventor
- Bob Boie — Researcher at Bell Labs
- Bill Buxton — Researcher at the University of Toronto
What happens on 29 October 2026
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