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

1. Nicholson, Alexander M. Generating and transmitting electric currents U.S. Patent 2,212,845, granted August 27, 1940.
2. "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.
3. "Radio/Broadcasting Timeline". CBN History. WCBN. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
4. Quahog.org's Salty Brine page. Retrieved 2014-01-22.

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