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 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, succeedi ...

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", and ' ...

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. C ...

. He helped develop components of one of the world's first

digital watches A watch is a portable timepiece intended to be carried or worn by a person. It is designed to keep a consistent movement despite the motions caused by the person's activities. A wristwatch is designed to be worn around the wrist, attached by ...

and an early wireless heart monitor. Petroff founded Care Electronics, Inc. which was acquired by Electro-Data, Inc. of Garland, Texas in autumn 1971.

Petroff Point Petroff Point ( bg, Петров нос, ‘Petrov Nos’ \pe-'trov 'nos\) is a rocky point on the east coast of Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago, Antarctica projecting northeastwards 1.2 km into Hill Bay. Situated 3.85 km north ...

Brabant Island Brabant Island is the second largest island of the Palmer Archipelago within the British Antarctic Territory, lying between Anvers Island and Liège Island. Brabant Island is long north-south, wide, and rises to in Mount Parry. The interio ...

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 co ...

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