That one was REALLY BAD Roy   
   We should form a posse and hunt yopu down!!!!!  :-)  :-)   
      
   RW>I'LL BET YOU NEVER HAD A CLUE ABOUT THIS!!!   
      
   RW>The Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner   
      
   RW>Here's a little factoid for automotive buffs or just to dazzle your   
   RW>friends.   
      
   RW>The four Goldberg brothers, Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented and   
   RW>developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946, the   
   RW>temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees.   
      
   RW>The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and sweet-talked   
   RW>his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were there with the   
   RW>most exciting innovation in the auto industry since the electric starter.   
      
   RW>Henry was curious and invited them into his office. They refused and   
   RW>instead asked that he come out to the parking lot to their car.   
      
   RW>They persuaded him to get into the car, which was about 130 degrees,   
   RW>turned on the air conditioner, and cooled the car off immediately.   
      
   RW>Old Henry got very excited and invited them back to the office, where he   
   RW>offered them $3 million for the patent.   
      
   RW>The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but they   
   RW>wanted the recognition by having a label, 'The Goldberg Air Conditioner,'   
   RW>on the dashboard of each car in which it was installed.   
      
   RW>Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti- Semitic, and there was   
   RW>no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on two million Fords.   
      
   RW>They haggled back and forth for about two hours and finally agreed on $4   
   RW>million and that just their first names would be shown.   
      
   RW>And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show - Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max   
   RW>-- on the controls.   
      
      
   RW>I can hear your groans from here. Control yourself!!!   
      
      
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