UGH! You had me going until the end.
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From: Ken and Brenda Brekke
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 12:14 PM
To: 'Antique Phonograph List'
Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Edison and anti-semitism
Every once in a while, a little bit of historical trivia comes to light.
Did you know???? 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 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,
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.
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