>from David in Ballarat, AUS > > >Did you know???? > > >The Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner. >Here's a little factoid for automotive buffs or just to dazzle your friends. > >The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented >and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, >1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. > >The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and >sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were >there with the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since >the electric starter. > >Henry was curious and invited them into his office. > >They refused and instead asked that he come out to the parking lot >to their car. > >They persuaded him to get into the car, which was >about 130 degrees, turned on the air conditioner, and cooled the car >off immediately. > >The old man got very excited and invited them back to the office, >where he offered them $3 million for the patent. > >The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but >they wanted the recognition by having a label, 'The Goldberg >Air-Conditioner,' on the dashboard of each car in which it was installed. > >Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti- >Semitic, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's >name on two million Fords. > >They haggled back and forth for about two hours and finally agreed >on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown. > >And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show -- > > >Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max -- on the controls.. > >I can hear your groans from here. Control yourself!!! > >
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