1904 in radio
Events
- January 7 (with effect from February 1) – The Marconi Company establishes "CQD" as one of the first international maritime radio distress signals.[1]
- May 24 – The United States Patent Office awards Marconi a patent for a "Wireless signaling system".[2]
- November 16 – 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
- January 15 – Charles Hill, British physician, medical and broadcast executive, politician and "The Radio Doctor" (d. 1989)
- February 23 – William L. Shirer, American war correspondent (d. 1993)
- May 8 – John Snagge, English radio newsreader (d. 1996)
- May 24 – Sefton Delmer, German-born British propaganda radio broadcaster (d. 1979)
- August 14 – Lindley Fraser, Scottish-born academic economist and broadcaster (d. 1963)
- November 24 – Pegeen Fitzgerald, American radio talk-show host (both alone and with her husband, Ed) on WOR and WJZ in New York City[5] and Norcatur, Kansas (d. 1989)[6]
gollark: > It also criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control, whether or not there is actual infringement of copyright itself.according to the Wikipedia article.
gollark: And that being a problem is caused by DMCA section 1201.
gollark: They don't seem to be going after it because of piracy (except possibly due to the poor examples in the README) but because it could maybe be used to violate copyright, and that being illegal is a DMCA issue.
gollark: It isn't. Without it, there would basically not be a case against youtube-dl at all.
gollark: Again, it's the DMCA which makes the maybe-usable-to-violate-copyright things problematic in the first place.
References
- "Radio in History". On This Day. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- U.S. Patent 760,463.
- U.S. Patent 803,684.
- "Radio/Broadcasting Timeline". CBN History. WCBN. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
- Flint, Peter B. (January 31, 1989). "Pegeen Fitzgerald, 78, Radio Host Of Family-Style Talk Show, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
- "Pegeen Fitzgerald". Radio Television Mirror. 35 (4): 80. March 1951. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
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