- August Dvorak
August Dvorak (
May 5 ,1894 –October 10 ,1975 ) [Cassingham, R. C. (1986). "The Dvorak Keyboard". Freelance Communications. ISBN 0-935309-10-1. Page 5.] was an educational psychologist and professor of education [Cassingham, page 32.] at theUniversity of Washington inSeattle, Washington . [Dvorak, August et al. (1936). "Typewriting Behavior ". American Book Company. Title page.] He and his brother-in-law,William Dealey , are best known for creating theDvorak Simplified Keyboard layout in the 1930s as a replacement for theQWERTY keyboard layout. In the 1940s, Dvorak designed keyboard layouts for people with the use of one hand.Dvorak and Dealey, along with
Nellie Merrick andGertrude 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 IPA| [r] and IPA| [ʒ] , August Dvorak's family in the U.S. pronounces it as IPAEng|ˈdvɔræk. [Cassingham, page 15.]External links
* [http://content.lib.washington.edu/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/imlsmohai&CISOPTR=2101 Photograph: August Dvorak and typing class at University of Washington, Seattle] (November 14, 1932)
* [http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/Dvorak/ Dvorak Keyboard Claims]
* [http://www.dvzine.org/ Dvorak Keyboard Magazine]References
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