August Dvorak

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Dr. August Dvorak (May 5, 1894 – October 10, 1975)^[1] was an educational psychologist and professor of education^[2] at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington^[3]. He and his brother-in-law, Dr. William Dealey, are best known for creating the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for the QWERTY keyboard layout. In the 1940s, Dvorak designed keyboard layouts for people with the use of one hand.

Dvorak and Dealey, along with Nellie Merrick and Gertrude Ford, wrote the book Typewriting Behavior, published in 1936. The book, currently not in print, is an in-depth report on the psychology and physiology of typing.

Dvorak was distantly related to the Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. While the composer's name is pronounced [ˈdvɔr̝ɑːk]), with the ř roughly as a simultaneous trilled [r] and [ʒ], August Dvorak's family in the U.S. pronounces it as IPA: /ˈdvɔræk/^[4].

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Photograph: August Dvorak and typing class at University of Washington, Seattle (November 14, 1932)
Dvorak Keyboard Claims
Dvorak Keyboard Magazine

[edit] References

^ Cassingham, R. C. (1986). The Dvorak Keyboard. Freelance Communications. ISBN 0-935309-10-1. Page 5.
^ Cassingham, page 32.
^ Dvorak, August et al. (1936). Typewriting Behavior. American Book Company. Title page.
^ Cassingham, page 15.