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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Automobile Air Conditioner

The Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner

Here's a little fact 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.


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.

10 comments:

  1. Ha ha, good one Cat, thank you for the giggle :) Wishing you a very Happy Birthday! Hope you had a wonderful day :)

    Hugs
    Roz

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    1. Happy you enjoyed Roz. Thanks for the birthday wishes...had to work so it wasn't wonderful but wasn't bad either. ;)

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  2. Happy Belated Birthday, Cat! Thanks for all the smiles.

    Ella

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    1. Thank you for Ella. You are very welcome for all the smiles. ;)

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  3. Hope you celebrated You on your special day...cause you sure are special to all of us....
    Very clever had no idea where this one was going...
    hugs abby

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    1. Thank you for the lovely compliment Abby. Didn't really celebrate as I had to work.
      Ooh...gotcha! ;)

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  4. Oh Cat. Good one. Made me laugh. Thanks.

    Hope you had a wonderful Birthday.

    Love,
    Ronnie
    xx

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    1. Happy you enjoyed it Ronnie and thanks for the birthday wishes. ;)

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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  5. LoL, I had no idea where this would go, thank you for the giggles, Cat. I read that your grands sang a song for you, and I am sure it was wonderful!

    hugs

    Nina

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    1. Gotcha Nina! ;) Oh the song from the girls was wonderful Nina...have it saved on my phone...am trying to figure out how to transfer it so I can save it permanently.

      Hugs and blessings...Cat

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