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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