With radio, as with everything, there’s a right way and a wrong way of doing things. A hundred years ago this month, in the July 1922 issue of Popular Science, Armstrong Perry gives some pointers on how to set up your radio receiving station the right way, and he includes the examples shown above. He concedes that the second station might be highly efficient, but from not planning things out right from the beginning, it is “no ornament to the household.”