15 Facts About Boris Rosing

Boris Rosing was born in Saint Petersburg into the family of a government official.

From 1879 to 1887, Boris studied at St Petersburg's Vvdensky gymnasium, from which he graduated with a gold medal.

Boris Rosing then studied physics and mathematics at St Petersburg University, which was a major research center.

Boris Rosing discovered hysteresis in the lengths of iron wires in the presence of cyclic magnetic fields, a phenomenon that was discovered independently by the Japanese investigator Hantaro Nagaoka.

Boris Rosing subsequently became a physics instructor at the St Petersburg Institute of Technology.

Boris Rosing taught at the St Petersburg Institute of Technology until 1918.

Boris Rosing then conducted research at the Leningrad Experimental Electrotechnical Laboratory from 1924 to 1928 and at the Central Laboratory for Wire Communications from 1928 to 1931.

Boris Rosing recognized the shortcomings of mechanical television; he thought that the image should be displayed electrically on a cathode-ray tube.

Therefore, Boris Rosing used a photocell, a piece of alkaline metal in a vacuum tube which emitted electrons in response to light.

Boris Rosing followed up with a demonstration of which a report was published in the Scientific American with diagrams and full description of the invention's operation.

Boris Rosing's invention expanded on the designs of Paul Nipkow and his mechanical system of rotating lenses and mirrors.

Accordingly, Boris Rosing's system employed a mechanical camera device, but used very early CRTs as a receiver.

In 1925, B Rosing advised and helped young inventor Boris Grabovsky apply for a patent of a fully electronic TV set, called Telefot.

Boris Rosing continued his television research until 1931 when he was exiled as a counter-revolutionary to Kotlas without right to work, but in 1932 was moved to Archangelsk, where took up physics at the Forestry Technology Institute.

Boris Rosing was buried in the Arkhangelsk Vologda cemetery.