When the &quot;touch screen&quot; was invented depends on how you define the term.
For &quot;light pen&quot; based system, early&#x2F;mid 1950&#x27;s. For capacitive systems,
it&#x27;s the mid&#x2F;late 1960&#x27;s.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Light_pen" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Light_pen</a><p>&gt;&quot;<i>The first light pen was created around 1955 as part of the Whirlwind
&gt;project at MIT.[2][3]</i>&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Touchscreen#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Touchscreen#History</a><p>&gt;&quot;<i>E.A. Johnson described his work on capacitive touchscreens in a short
article published in 1965[6] and then more fully with photographs
and diagrams in an article published in 1967.[7]</i>&quot;