I'LL BET YOU NEVER HAD A CLUE ABOUT THIS!!!   
      
   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.   
      
   Old Henry 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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