Graphics Tablet

A graphics tablet is a computer input device that lets a user hand draw or paint images, animations, and graphics with a pen like stylus, in much the same way a person draws on paper with a pencil. The first electronic handwriting device was the Telautograph, patented by Elisha Gray in 1888, and a more direct ancestor of the modern graphics tablet was the Stylator of 1957, followed by the better known RAND Tablet of 1964, which used a grid of wires beneath the drawing surface to encode the stylus horizontal and vertical position as a small electrostatic signal. A graphics tablet has a surface the user draws on with an attached stylus while the resulting image appears on a separate computer monitor, though some modern tablets build an LCD screen directly into the drawing surface for a more natural drawing experience. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/