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He also worked as a technical instructor, after being appointed on August 27, 1900 royal commissary at the Escuela Superior de Artes e Industrias de Madrid. After 8 months, he became frustrated with his inability to reform the curriculum and traveled to Europe and the United States from May 1903, where he became interested in instruction via correspondence. He abandoned his military career, and set up the Internacional Institución Electrotécnica, in Valencia in 1903, one of the first distance education programs in the world. It gave degrees for the careers of mechanical engineer, electrician, and mechanic-electrician.
He published his Enciclopedia científico-practica del ingeniero mecánico electricista, published in 2 editions (1904, 1915). The institution also published a magazine called Electricidad y Mecánica. The institution later renamed itself the Institución de Enseñaza Técnica, and offered two new degrees: agricultural engineering and therapeutic teacher. It also offered a long-distance language learning program by phonograph.
Cervera was also responsible for designing the original Tenerife Tram system. He helped build a tramway system in his native Segorbe.
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