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scroll wheel

component of a computer mouse used to scroll up and down
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scroll wheel

Summary

scroll wheel draws 506 Wikipedia views per month (practices category, ranking #127 of 764).[1]

Key Facts

  • scroll wheel is credited with the discovery of Jack J. McCauley[2].
  • scroll wheel is a type of input device[3].
  • scroll wheel is part of computer mouse[4].
  • scroll wheel is used for scrolling[5].
  • scroll wheel comprises middle mouse button[6].
  • scroll wheel's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/wheel[7].

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Works and Contributions

scroll wheel is credited with the discovery of Jack J. McCauley[2].

Why It Matters

scroll wheel draws 506 Wikipedia views per month (practices category, ranking #127 of 764).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[8] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[9]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Q207708. Retrieved . ign.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [8] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [9] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 11d ago · Mariobanana · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Image → 3-Tasten-Maus Microsoft.jpg
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