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Frank A. Perret (1867 -1943) |
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Frank A. Perret (Coll. Library of Congress) Electrical engineer and inventor, he came late to the volcanogy field, but his studies on Mt. Vesuvius, Mt. Etna, Stromboli and Kilauea made him well known..
Frank A. Perret started working for Thomas Edison in New York. He then co-founded a company specialized in electric motors and dynamos. Due to poor health, he left the company in 1904, and started working on volcanoes. Frank Perret arrived in Martinique in 1930, during the 1929-1932 eruption. His diagnosis of the ongoing crisis, allowed the populations to come back in the northen communities. His work on the volcano, sometimes observing the  pyroclastic flows at close range, contributed to reassure the inhabitants.
Frank A. Perret spent about 10 years in Martinique, especially in Saint-Pierre, where he was much loved; he built on the batterie d'Esnotz site a volcanological museum, which now bears his name.
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Mt Pelee Pioneers 