Not to throw us too far off topic, but I highly recommend this article on a 1912 wireless set found almost totally intact at a garage sale! M.H. Dodd's station is important in that the equipment gives you a wonderful idea of what people who were into wireless were doing at the time; from the silver dimes soldered onto the key contacts, to reading all the pubs Gernsback was putting out:
http://www.radioblvd.com/DoddStation.html