1918 in radio

Overview of the events of 1918 in radio

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

## Events

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* 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 Amalgamated Wireless 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

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* 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

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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. ^ a b "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.

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