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2008-2009, the theme of "Great Inventors" is scheduled for the July/August 2009 edition of Cobblestone magazine. One of the most brilliant, and quite possibly the most unsung and forgotten inventors  in American history, is Philo T. Farnsworth. The article will be tailored to appeal to Cobblestones young readers by emphasizing his early accomplishments. Farnsworth won his first scientific award  at the age of 13 for inventing a thief-proof automobile ignition switch in response to a contest offered by Science and Invention magazine (Godfrey). He had the idea that would  later become foundation for the experiments that led to the development of television while he was in high school and the drawings he made as a teenager were instrumental in  proving that Farnsworth was truly the developer of foundations of television. While Farnsworth is best known for his development of television, he also invented the first electron microscope, as well  as the first infant incubator. He helped to develop radar during World War Ii and was highly involved in developing fusion as a source for power generation. While Farnsworths fusion  device, the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor, has not proven to be practical power source, it is used by scientists as a neutron generator. Judged by Scientific American magazine to be one of  the ten greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, when Farnsworth died he held 300 U.S. and foreign patents. This article will also touch on the controversy and debate that  has kept Farnsworths name from becoming famous as the inventor of television. While it is largely touted in American history that no one person invented television, it is also true  that the invention of television, as it is known today, would not have occurred without Farnsworths ideas, as television works as a direct result of no less than six of