Who invented the Dvorak keyboard?

1936: University of Washington education professor August Dvorak receives a patent for the keyboard that bears his name. ... read more

The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (/ˈdvɔːræk, dəˈvɔː-/ d-VOR-ak) is a keyboard layout patented during 1936 by Dr. August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, Dr. William Dealey. Several modifications have since been designed by the team directed by Dvorak or by ANSI. read more

The Dvorak keyboard, named for its inventor, Dr. August Dvorak, was designed with the goal of maximizing typing efficiency. For over a century, typists have been using the qwerty keyboard arrangement, a hack that was implemented to work around the mechanical limitations of early typewriters. read more