“Dear Mr. Allende: your most remarkable letters [sic], postmarked Gainesville, Texas Jan 5th, was forwarded to me here today. This is without doubt the most remarkable report that I have had out of hundreds of letters from readers of my book. I am retyping it so...
The Murray Corporation of America, in Detroit, filed a patent for spring construction. One of the three names on the patent was a Morris K. Jessup of Grosse Pointe, MI.
Jessup moved to Iowa and became a professor of astronomy at Drake University.
Jessup resigned from the department, It’s said funding may have been an issue. The department had been an early victim of the Great Depression, with programs canceled and salaries cut.
Jessup now stationed in at the Lamont-Hussey Observatory in South African, was responsible for locating 854 double-stars between May 1928 and July 1930.
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