HIS SCRAPBOOK IS REAL ENCYCLOPEDIA (Oct, 1931)

HIS SCRAPBOOK IS REAL ENCYCLOPEDIA

Five years ago Arthur Carlson, subway worker of Brooklyn, N. Y., began to clip interesting articles from Popular Science Monthly and other magazines. Now he has a 140-page “encyclopedia” that would be the envy of many a scrapbook devotee. Spending eight hours a day, it would take about a week or two, he estimates, to read it through. A dozen or more complete articles may be placed on one page, by the ingenious method Carlson devised. They are not pasted flat but are neatly hinged at one edge with gummed tape, the larger clippings overlapping the smaller. By this space-saving system he has managed to cram an enormous amount of information into a single volume. Many of the clippings are grouped under special subject headings such as “Astronomy,” “Codes,” “Police,” “Speed,” “Time-pieces,” and “Inventions.”