1918 in radio

Government preparing men for radio work under direction of Federal Vocational Board. Student transmitting a message to four of his classmates in the class room at the Stuyvesant Evening High School, New York. Western Newspaper Union. April 2018.

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1918 in radio details the internationally significant events in radio broadcasting for the year 1918.

Events

• 10 April – Alexander M. Nicholson files a patent for the radio crystal oscillator. ^[1]
• 22 September – The first radio broadcast from the United Kingdom to Australia is made by AWA to the home of Ernest Fisk in Sydney. ^[2]
• 11 November – 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

• 1 January – Wolf Mittler, German broadcaster (d. 2002)
• 16 April – Spike Milligan, British comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (d. 2002)
• 26 April – William Hardcastle, British radio news presenter (d. 1975)
• 18 June – Isobel Barnett, British broadcasting personality (suicide 1980)
• 8 August – Salty Brine, American radio host (d. 2004) ^[4]
• 9 August – Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish broadcast dramatist (d. 1966)
• 4 September – Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (d. 2009)
• 22 September – Betty Wragge, American actress of the Golden Age of Radio (d. 2002)
• 26 September – John Zacherle, American television and radio host, singer and voice actor (d. 2016)
• 7 September – Billy Graham, American minister whose sermons were broadcast on radio (d. 2018)

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. Archived from the original on 2022-03-01. Retrieved 2019-10-23.
4. "Quahog.org's Salty Brine page. Retrieved 2014-01-22". Archived from the original on 2014-01-06. Retrieved 2014-01-22.