Editing Guglielmo Marconi (section)

===Later years===
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In 1914, Marconi was made a Senator in the [[Senate of the Kingdom of Italy]] and appointed Honorary Knight Grand Cross of the [[Royal Victorian Order]] in the UK. During [[World War I]], Italy joined the Allied side of the conflict, and Marconi was placed in charge of the Italian military's radio service. He attained the rank of lieutenant in the [[Italian Royal Army]] and of commander in the ''[[Regia Marina]]''. In 1929, he was made a [[marquess]] by King [[Victor Emmanuel III]].<ref name=":0" />

[[Image:Villa Marconi.jpg|thumb|Villa Marconi, with Marconi's tomb in foreground]]
While helping to develop microwave technology, the ''[[Marchese]]'' Marconi suffered nine [[heart attack]]s in the span of three years preceding his death.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Invisible Rainbow|last=Firstenberg|first=Arthur|publisher=AGB Press|year=2017|isbn=978-0-692-68301-9|page=99}}</ref> Marconi died in Rome on 20 July 1937 at age 63, following the ninth, fatal, heart attack, and Italy held a [[state funeral]] for him. As a tribute, shops on the street where he lived were "Closed for national mourning".<ref name=guard>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1937/jul/21/mainsection.fromthearchive|title=Radio falls silent for death of Marconi|website=The Guardian|date=21 July 1937|access-date=10 June 2016}}</ref> In addition, at 6&nbsp;pm the next day, the time designated for the funeral, transmitters around the world observed two minutes of silence in his honour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130862-900-marconi-forged-todays-interconnected-world-of-communication/|title=Marconi forged today's interconnected world of communication|first=Andrew|last=Robinson|website=New Scientist}}</ref> The British Post Office also sent a message requesting that all broadcasting ships honour Marconi with two minutes of broadcasting silence.<ref name=guard /> His remains are housed in the [[Mausoleum of Guglielmo Marconi]] in the grounds of Villa Griffone at [[Sasso Marconi]], Emilia-Romagna, which assumed that name in his honour in 1938.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://markpadfield.com/marconicalling/museum/html/places/places-i=13.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906064514/http://markpadfield.com/marconicalling/museum/html/places/places-i=13.html|archive-date=2014-09-06|title=Villa Griffone, Near Bologna, Italy |website=markpadfield.com}}</ref>

In 1943, Marconi's elegant sailing yacht, the ''[[Elettra (ship 1904)|Elettra]]'', was commandeered and refitted as a warship by the German Navy. She was sunk by the [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] on 22 January 1944. After the war, the Italian Government tried to retrieve the wreckage, to rebuild the boat, and the wreckage was removed to Italy. Eventually, the idea was abandoned, and the wreckage was cut into pieces which were distributed amongst Italian museums.

In 1943, the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] handed down a decision on Marconi's radio patents restoring some of the prior patents of [[Oliver Lodge]], [[John Stone Stone]], and [[Nikola Tesla]].<ref name="LQsxMxEUC page 3">{{cite book|author1=Redouté, Jean-Michel |author2=Steyaert, Michiel|title=EMC of Analog Integrated Circuits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c92LQsxMxEUC&pg=PA3|date=2009|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-90-481-3230-0|page=3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Meadow, Charles T.|title=Making Connections: Communication through the Ages|url=https://archive.org/details/makingconnection00mead|url-access=registration|date=2002|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-1-4617-0691-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/makingconnection00mead/page/193 193]}}</ref> The decision was not about Marconi's original radio patents<ref>{{cite web|url=https://earlyradiohistory.us/tesla.htm|title=Nikola Tesla: The Guy Who DIDN'T "Invent Radio|author=White, Thomas H.|date=1 November 2012|publisher=Earlyradiohistory.us }}</ref> and the court declared that their decision had no bearing on Marconi's claim as the first to achieve radio transmission, just that since Marconi's claim to certain patents was questionable, he could not claim infringement on those same patents.<ref>{{cite book|author=Sobot, Robert|title=Wireless Communication Electronics: Introduction to RF Circuits and Design Techniques|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SdGaiV6iup0C&pg=PA4|date=2012|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4614-1116-1|page=4}}</ref> There are claims the high court was trying to nullify a World War I claim against the United States government by the Marconi Company via simply restoring the non-Marconi prior patent.<ref name="LQsxMxEUC page 3"/>