All of the books on the shelves (which surround the southern, western, northern, and parts of the eastern wall) were his working library and the source of much of his education. He never went to college, as there just wasn’t enough money. He was primarily self-taught. And, he was a voracious reader.

The blue desk at the northern end of the room (to your right) is the desk he used in later years. In the glass case on the top you can see one of the two IBM Wheelwriters he used during the later decades of his career; the other one is in the Public Library of his hometown, Waukegan, Illinois. On top of the desk is a picture of the desk as it was in his basement office.