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Vol. I

Bench & Binder

Electronics • Technical Education • Restoration • Preservation

The bench is where things are built, repaired, and measured. The binder is where the lessons, manuals, and correspondence courses are kept. Together they hold the practical and educational history of electronics — from vacuum-tube theory to HP calculators, from correspondence schools to the work of reconstructing lost curricula.

Vintage electronics on a worn wooden workbench

Fig. 1 — The bench, in its ordinary state.

Collections

A catalog of shelves, not a claim of affiliation.

Cleveland Institute of ElectronicsNational Radio InstituteHeathkitVintage ElectronicsVintage ComputingHP CalculatorsBench ProjectsTest EquipmentCorrespondence EducationCourse Reconstruction

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Educational Artifact Database

Course Reconstruction Ledger

  • Cleveland Institute of Electronics

    AAS Degree Program — Program Documentation

    Owned
    Course
    Associate in Applied Science Degree Program
    Subject
    Electronics Technology
    Provenance
    Original program documentation

    Program documentation for the CIE Associate in Applied Science degree program. Digital copy held in the archive.

    • #CIE
    • #AAS
    • #degree program

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Colophon

Set in EB Garamond, Libre Baskerville, and IBM Plex Mono. Designed in the spirit of a Renaissance notebook read by the light of an electronics bench.

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