TOUCH Issue 8: A Brief History of Touch-Screen Technology
A brief history of
touch-
1983
HP / Hewlett Packard
developed the first touch
screen computer
1970
first resistive touch
screen invented by George Samuel
Hurst (resistive touch screens are what
we use today)
1960s
1965
1970s
first capacitive touch
screen invented by E.A. Johnson
1980s
1982
first multi-touch
device developed at the University
of Toronto by Nimish Mehta. Multitouch devices could detect and
respond to more than one point of
contact (which is also what we use
today).