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[TyBull]

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.