One hundred years ago this month, the March 1925 issue of Boys’ Life showed Eagle Scouts Andrew S. Bostwick and H.I. Swanson, both of Troop 711, Brooklyn, at the controls of the radio they had built. The magazine reported that they picked up 150 stations during the course of one evening.
Perhaps the duo inspired some scouts to build the two-tube receiver described in the same issue of the magazine:
