1918 in radio explained

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

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 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]

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)

Nicholson, Alexander M. Generating and transmitting electric currents, granted August 27, 1940.
Web site: Ernest Fisk and the first wireless messages from the UK to Australia. State Library of New South Wales. Sydney. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140102200034/http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/natural_world/.../people_places/north/professionals/fisk/index.html. 2014-01-02.
Web site: Radio/Broadcasting Timeline. CBN History. WCBN. 2019-10-23. 2022-03-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20220301024429/http://www.wcbn.org/history/wcbntime.html. dead.
Web site: Quahog.org's Salty Brine page. Retrieved 2014-01-22. . 2014-01-22 . 2014-01-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140106194137/http://www.quahog.org/factsfolklore/index.php?id=121 . dead .