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The Goldberg Brothers:


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

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….

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On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:55:28 -0700, Gordon wrote:

The Goldberg Brothers:


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

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….



A good one ... except that the 1939 Packard introduced the first
automobile air conditioner. You will have to incorporate old Joe
Packard into your story.

Cheers,

Bruce
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On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:51:32 -0400, WaIIy wrote:

On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:20:20 +0700, Bruce in Bangkok
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A good one ... except that the 1939 Packard introduced the first
automobile air conditioner. You will have to incorporate old Joe
Packard into your story.

Cheers,


1940 Packard



Well, I couldn't remember quite that far back, or perhaps I wasn't
interested in cars in those days, so I had to rely on the Wiki :-)

Cheers,

Bruce
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