Antonin Leopold Dvorak: Keyboard Rhetor

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Antonin leopold Dvorak
Keyboard creator

Antonin Dvorak was born on september eighth in 1841. Dvorak had eight other siblings and he was the first of the nine children. Dvorak was a composer for years before him and his brother invented the keyboard. First his work was the polka in music. He came to america in 1892 and found many things to find fun in but soon he missed his country and returned to it in 1895. When Dvorak and his brother invented the Dvorak keyboard They found something wrong with the QWERTY line on the keyboard they thought they needed to fix it, they claimed that it was a problem That many letter combinations did not work and several other reasons that they came up with to say that it was wrong.

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