Institutions

Historical schools, publishers, and makers — cataloged for study, not affiliation.


The archive gathers the catalogs and curricula of technical education — correspondence schools, kit makers, and publishers whose materials survive only in scattered collections. Each entry below is a record of historical fact; each list shows what this archive holds under that institution's name.

  1. Cleveland Institute of Electronics


    A correspondence school of electronics. Cataloged here for study and preservation only. The Independent Scholar is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representing this institution.

    A fuller historical note is being compiled from surviving materials.

The Independent Scholar

Curiosity without a curriculum.

A personal record of things studied, built, repaired, collected, questioned, and occasionally understood.

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.