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Mousetrap, mouse, bait (chocolate) Wood mouse is captured with cage snap case An early patented mousetrap is a live capture device patented in 1870 by W K Bachman of South Carolina. [ 11 ] These traps have the advantage of allowing the mouse to be released into the wild, or the disadvantage of having to personally kill the captured animal if ...
Mousetrapping is a technique that prevents users from exiting a website through standard means. It is frequently used by malicious websites, and is often seen on tech support scam sites.
A mousetrap is a device for catching mice. Mousetrap or mouse trap may also refer to: The Mousetrap, a play by Agatha Christie; The Mouse Trap (film), a 2024 movie based on Steamboat Willie. Mousetrap (weapon), a 1942 antisubmarine weapon; Mousetrap (clothing), a device used to prevent a person from taking off their clothing
"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" is a metaphor about the power of innovation. It originated, in a somewhat different form, with Ralph Waldo Emerson . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The epigram as known today, which specifies "mousetrap", probably also originated with Emerson, although the evidence for this is indirect.
Mouse Trap (originally Mouse Trap Game) is a board game first published by Ideal in 1963 for two to four players. It is one of the first mass-produced three-dimensional board games. [1] [2] Players at first cooperate to build a working mouse trap in the style of a Rube Goldberg machine.
A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a computer. The first public ...
Mouse Trap is a platform game written by Dave Mann (using the pseudonym Chris Robson) and published by Tynesoft in 1986 for the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro home computers. [1] One year later the game was released for the Atari 8-bit computers , [ 2 ] Atari ST , Amiga , and Commodore 64 .
In computing, a pointer or mouse pointer (as part of a personal computer WIMP style of interaction) [10] [11] [12] is a symbol or graphical image on the computer monitor or other display device that echoes movements of the pointing device, commonly a mouse, touchpad, or stylus pen. It signals the point where actions of the user take place.