August biography dvorak piano

August Dvorak had a variety of accomplishments as an efficiency specialist in the Navy and as an education professor at the University of Washington. But the invention that bears his name, and that he hoped would bring both fame and fortune, never caught hold commercially. His Dvorak keyboard, designed to increase speed and reduce errors in typing through logical grouping of letters, still lags far behind the traditional QWERTY configuration.

Dvorak, originally from Glencoe, Minnesota, and a distant relative of composer Antonin Dvorak , was not new to frustration.

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As a young man he served in the U. He was wounded and discharged, and Villa escaped. Dvorak then enlisted in the U. Naval Reserve, where he taught mathematics and navigation until the U. After the war Dvorak moved to Seattle and married Hermione Dealey They both became professors in the education department at the University of Washington.

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