A century ago this month, the cover of the September 1920 issue of Radio News featured this man teaching the art of radio to his companion.

The issue also featured an article by Marianne Brown, 2AOA, whom we profiled in an earlier post, from the magazine’s April 1920 issue. Her training was much more formal than the woman shown on the cover. With the U.S. in the war, she decided to do her part by getting trained as a radio operator, and then waiting for the government to put her to work. Unfortunately, that never happened, but she did secure a position in the testing department of the Marconi Company, and she writes about her experiences there as “one of the gang.”