tor the Americas Cup this led to the formation of the American Marconi Company.  In 1900 Marconi made a major step in the development in radio by receiving a patent for Improvements in Apparatus for Wireless Telegraphy which allowed radio to be broadcasted on different wavelengths..  Guglielmo Marconi's biggest test came on December 12,

1901 when he tried for the first time to transmit a transatlantic signal.  He was successful in sending a signal from Podla, Cornwall, England to St. Johns, Canada.  This accomplishment established radio as a major resource.  In 1909

Guglielmo Marconi received the Nobel Prize for physics.  In 1912 after the sinking of the Titanic many new laws were introduced which required ships to have a radio operator on duty 24 hours a day.  Guglielmo Marconi became famous after the sinking of the Titanic and the Republic because he had

helped to save so many people.  From 1912 to 1914 there were many scandals involving Marconi's patents for his wireless telegraphy equipment.  In 1914 radio was banned in England because of all of these scandals.  During World War 1 radio was used increasingly in communications.  It was during World War 1 that Marconi found that he could use