Boris Grabovsky

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Boris Pavlovich Grabovsky was a Soviet engineer who invented the first fully electronic TV transmitting tube [1].

Boris Grabovsky was born on May 26, 1901 in Tobolsk, Tyumen Oblast of Russia. After the death of his farther, Pavel Grabovsky, 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.

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.