1914 in radio

The year 1914 in radio involved some significant events.

Events

Robert Goldschmidt with Laeken, Belgium radiotelephone equipment.^[1]

• 28 March – Robert Goldschmidt inaugurates weekly radiotelephone broadcasts from Laeken, Belgium, using a Moretti high-frequency spark transmitter and Marzi microphone. Broadcasts end after the German invasion at the start of World War I.^[1]
• 6 October – Edwin Howard Armstrong is granted a United States patent for the regenerative circuit.^[2]

Births

• 20 January – Roy Plomley, English radio broadcaster (died 1985)
• 26 January – Jack de Manio, English radio broadcaster (died 1988)
• 25 February – John Arlott, English cricket commentator (died 1991)
• 29 April – Deryck Guyler, English actor (died 1999)
• 12 May – Howard K. Smith, American journalist and radio reporter (died 2002)
• 19 July – Hubert Gregg, English actor, songwriter and broadcaster (died 2004)
• 22 July – Charles Régnier, German actor (died 2001)
• 2 October – Yuri Levitan, Russian radio announcer (died 1983)
• 27 October – Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and radio broadcaster (died 1953)
• 29 October – Ben Gage, American actor, singer and radio announcer (died 1978)
• 25 December – Abelardo Raidi, Venezuelan sportswriter and radio broadcaster (died 2002)
• 29 December – Margaret Hubble, English radio presenter (died 2006)

References

1. "Radio Telephony: Article V" by Alfred N. Goldsmith, The Wireless Age, May 1917, page 565.
2. U.S. patent 1,113,149.