In 1918 the Titanic sank, More than a thousand survivors were landed in New York, They learned ihat Marconi was in ihe city, marched in a body io his hotel cheered him and cried: "We owe on: lives to. you."
In 1909 he was awarded the Nobel prize for physics.
During the Great War, the British and Italian navies adopted the Marconi wireless system, both for communication with their bases and with each other's ships at sea.
In 1914, Marconi was made a G.C.V.O, became a Senator of Italy and received the freedom of Rome.
He joined the Italian Navy as y Lieutenant and was promoted to Captain, At the close of the War he was sent to the Versailles Peace Conference as delegate for Italy.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.