That was awesome Ken! Loved it! On Jan 27, 2013 12:29 PM, "Ken and Brenda Brekke" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.org > _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.org
