10 Sep 11 07:34, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
    TW> That one was REALLY BAD Roy   
    TW> We should form a posse and hunt yopu down!!!!!  :-)  :-)   
      
   8^)   
      
    RW>> I'LL BET YOU NEVER HAD A CLUE ABOUT THIS!!!   
      
    RW>> The Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air   
    RW>> 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   
    RW>> and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17,   
    RW>> 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees.   
      
    RW>> The four brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and   
    RW>> sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that four gentlemen were   
    RW>> there with the most exciting innovation in the auto industry since   
    RW>> 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,   
    RW>> where he offered them $3 million for the patent.   
      
    RW>> The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million, but   
    RW>> they wanted the recognition by having a label, 'The Goldberg Air   
    RW>> Conditioner,' on the dashboard of each car in which it was   
    RW>> installed.   
      
    RW>> Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti- Semitic, and   
    RW>> there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on two   
    RW>> million Fords.   
      
    RW>> They haggled back and forth for about two hours and finally agreed   
    RW>> on $4 million and that just their first names would be shown.   
      
    RW>> And so to this day, all Ford air conditioners show - Lo, Norm, Hi,   
    RW>> and Max -- on the controls.   
      
      
    RW>> I can hear your groans from here. Control yourself!!!   
      
      
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