Ulises Armand Sanabria (September 5, 1906  – January 6, 1969) was born in southern Chicago of Puerto Rican and French-American parents.

Sanabria was the builder and engineer of WCFL, the first mechanical television station which went on the air in Chicago on June 12, 1928.

This was only months after the first demonstrations of mechanical television by Charles Francis Jenkins in the US and John Logie Baird in the UK.

[1] In that year, he asked a young comedian named Milton Berle to appear on one of his station's programs.

[1] Also, in 1940 Sanabria working with Dr. Lee de Forest explored the concept of a primitive unmanned combat aerial vehicle using a television camera and a jam-resistant radio control and presented their idea in a Popular Mechanics issue.