August Dvorak
publication date: Tuesday, September 8, 2015 (part of Fall 2015)
category: 
Inventions
clue: The letters "afuf;k h.soav" would spell the answer, if you typed it on a keyboard named after this educator.
explanation: In 1936, Dvorak invented the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, an alternative keyboard layout still available today. more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Justin Woods, Matthew Preston, Joanna Woods, Mike Rothstein, Mike Eberhart, and Stan Iwanchuk
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