Boris Grabovsky

In his method patented in 1925, Grabovsky proposed a new principle of the TV imaging based on the vertical and horizontal electron beam sweeping under high voltage that is widely used in the modern cathode-ray tubes. Historian and ethnographer Boris Golender (Ukrainian: Борис Голендер) in his video lecture described in details where and how the inventor Boris Grabovsky demonstrated a first fully electronic TV set to committee and public in summer 1928.[2] Although this date of demonstration of the fully electronic TV set is the earliest known so far, most of the modern historians claim that either Vladimir Zworykin[6] or Philo Farnsworth[7] were supposedly first. Contribution made by Boris Grabovsky to the development of early television was acknowledged by the Government of the USSR.

Boris Grabovsky was born in 1901 in Tobolsk, Siberia, where his father, a prominent Ukrainian poet Pavlo Grabovsky was living in exile as a member of the Russian revolutionary movement Narodnaya Volya. After the death of his father the next year, the family moved to Odessa then to Kharkov. In 1917, they had to move to Central Asia, to Kyrgyz village Tokmak. He died in January 1966 in Frunze.

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 Vinnytsia National Technical University at the Faculty of Radio Electronics in the early 2000s, a photo gallery of prominent scientists — radio pioneers with a description of their achievements was created. Ukrainian scientists (with Boris Grabovsky) are presented with Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz, Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Stepanovich Popov.