The Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner

The Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air
Conditioner

Here's a little fact for automotive buffs, or just to
dazzle your friends. The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell,
Norman, Hiram, and Maxwell, 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 inside, 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-Jewish, 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.

Control yourself ! Just forward it on 
. This is what happens when you are retired and have too
much time on your hands !

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