1904 in radio explained

The year 1904 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

• 7 January (with effect from 1 February)  - The Marconi Company establishes "CQD" as one of the first international maritime radio distress signals.^[1]
• 24 May  - The United States Patent Office awards Marconi a patent for a "Wireless signaling system".^[2]
• 16 November  - English electrical engineer John Ambrose Fleming, working for Marconi, is awarded a United States patent for the Fleming valve, the first thermionic vacuum tube, a two-electrode diode, which he calls the oscillation valve.^[3]
• First radio transmission of music, at Graz, Austria.^[4]

Births

• 5 January  - Anona Winn, Australian-born British broadcasting personality (d. 1994)
• 15 January  - Charles Hill, British physician, medical and broadcast executive, politician and "The Radio Doctor" (d. 1989)
• 23 February  - William L. Shirer, American war correspondent (d. 1993)
• 8 May  - John Snagge, English radio newsreader (d. 1996)
• 24 May  - Sefton Delmer, German-born British propaganda radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
• 14 August  - Lindley Fraser, Scottish-born academic economist and broadcaster (d. 1963)
• 27 October  - Les Mitchel, American radio and film producer, director and actor (d. 1975)^{[5] [6]}
• 24 November  - Pegeen Fitzgerald, American radio talk-show host (both alone and with her husband, Ed) on WOR and WJZ in New York City^[7] and Norcatur, Kansas (d. 1989)^[8]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Radio in History. On This Day. 2019-10-22.
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4. Web site: Radio/Broadcasting Timeline. CBN History. WCBN. 2019-10-22. 2022-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20220301024429/http://www.wcbn.org/history/wcbntime.html. dead.
5. Armstrong, Alice Catt (1950). Who's Who in Los Angeles County. Los Angeles, CA: Who's Who Historical Society. p. 145. .
6. News: Obituaries: Les Mitchel. January 22, 1975. Variety. 94. .
7. News: Flint. Peter B.. Pegeen Fitzgerald, 78, Radio Host Of Family-Style Talk Show, Dies. 11 April 2016. The New York Times. January 31, 1989.
8. Pegeen Fitzgerald. Radio Television Mirror. March 1951. 35. 4. 80. 9 April 2016.