Peter Petroff (; 21 October 1919 – 27 February 2003
''The New York Times'': Peter D. Petroff Dies at 83. Retrieved 2024-01-10) was a Bulgarian American inventor, engineer,

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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

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devices for early weather and

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

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is named for Petroff.

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''usatoday.com'', 1919 births 2003 deaths People from Plovdiv Province Bulgarian emigrants to the United States 20th-century American physicists 20th-century Bulgarian physicists Bulgarian scientists Bulgarian inventors Bulgarian civil engineers American civil engineers Bulgarian mechanical engineers American mechanical engineers 20th-century American inventors {{Bulgaria-engineer-stub