1918 in radio
1918 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1918.
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Events
- April 10 – Alexander M. Nicholson files a patent for the radio crystal oscillator.[1]
- September 2 – The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia is made by Amalgamated Wireless to the home of Ernest Fisk in Sydney.[2]
- November 11 – Armistice ends World War I.
- Edwin Howard Armstrong develops the superheterodyne receiver.[3]
- A 200 kW alternator starts operating at Station NFF, the United States Navy station at Somerset, New Jersey, the most powerful radio transmitter at this time.[3]
Births
April
- 16 – Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (d. 2002)
- 26 – William Hardcastle, British radio news presenter (d. 1975)
June
- 18 – Isobel Barnett, British broadcasting personality (suicide 1980)
August
- 8 – Salty Brine, longtime morning host at WPRO on Rhode Island (d. 2004)[4]
- 9 – Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish broadcast dramatist (d. 1966)
September
- 4 – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
- 22 – Betty Wragge, American actress of the Golden Age of Radio
- 26 – John Zacherle, American television and radio host, singer and voice actor (d. 2016)
References
- Nicholson, Alexander M. Generating and transmitting electric currents U.S. Patent 2,212,845, granted August 27, 1940.
- "Ernest Fisk and the first wireless messages from the UK to Australia". Sydney: State Library of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02.
- "Radio/Broadcasting Timeline". CBN History. WCBN. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
- Quahog.org's Salty Brine page. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
External links
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