Peter Petroff ( bg, Петър Петров; 21 October 1919 – 27 February 2003
''The New York Times'': Peter D. Petroff Dies at 83.) was a

Bulgarian American Bulgarian Americans ( bg, Американски българи) are Americans of Bulgarian descent. For the 2000 United States Census, 55,489 Americans indicated Bulgarian as their first ancestry, while 92,841 persons declared to have Bulgaria ...

inventor, engineer,

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...

scientist, and adventurer. He was involved in the NASA space program. Petroff assisted in the development of one of the earliest computerized pollution monitoring system and

telemetry Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring. The word is derived from the Greek roots ''tele'', "remote", an ...

devices for early weather and

communications satellites A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth ...

. He helped develop components of one of the world's first digital watches and an early wireless

heart monitor A heart rate monitor (HRM) is a personal monitoring device that allows one to measure/display heart rate in real time or record the heart rate for later study. It is largely used to gather heart rate data while performing various types of phy ...

. Petroff founded Care Electronics, Inc. which was acquired by Electro-Data, Inc. of Garland, Texas in autumn 1971. Petroff Point on Brabant Island in

Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent. Situated almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle and surrounded by the Southern Ocean, it contains the geographic South Pole. Antarctica is the fifth-largest cont ...

is named for Petroff.Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica:
Petrov Point.

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Peter Petroff

1919 births 2003 deaths People from Plovdiv Province Bulgarian emigrants to the United States 20th-century American physicists Bulgarian physicists Bulgarian scientists Bulgarian inventors Bulgarian civil engineers American civil engineers Bulgarian mechanical engineers American mechanical engineers 20th-century American inventors {{space-stub