Boris Grabovsky

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Boris Pavlovich Grabovsky (Russian: Бори́с Па́влович Грабо́вский, Ukrainian: Бори́с Па́влович Грабо́вський, 26 May 1901 – 13 January 1966) was a Soviet engineer of Ukrainian descent who invented a first fully electronic TV set (video transmitting tube and video receiver) that was demonstrated in 1928.^[1][2][3] In 1925, one of the pioneers of television Boris Rosing advised and helped him apply for a patent (issued under No 5592) of a fully electronic TV set called Telefot.^[4][5] Boris is the son of the Ukrainian poet Pavlo Grabovsky.

Invention

In his method patented in 1925, Grabovsky proposed a new principle of the

Biography

Boris Grabovsky was born in 1901 in

Boris Grabovsky started his education in Tashkent special school. Then he entered preparational faculty of Central Asian University in Tashkent where he worked with Prof. G. Popov. In the university he read articles by Boris Rosing in the field of electronic telescopy. Being excited by the idea of the transmission of images over a distance, he invented the cathode commutator, which was the first prototype of his transmitting tube.

Honours

In 1965, Boris Grabovsky was awarded the title of the Honored Inventor of Uzbekistan.

In 1977, the museum of electronic television named Boris Grabovsky was founded in Tashkent.

There is a museum named after Boris Grabovsky in the Tyumen Industrial Institute.

There is a museum named after Boris Grabovsky in the village of Pushkarne (now Grabovske) in Sumy region .

In the

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