The temperature in Detroit was 98 degrees and rising on July 8, 1946, when the Goldberg brothers — Lowell, Norman, Hiram, and Maxwell — walked into 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.
Ford was curious and invited them into his office. They asked him to come out to the parking lot where their car was parked.
They asked him to get into the car, where the temperature was 120 degrees. Then they turned on the air conditioner and cooled the car off.
Ford was very excited and offered the Goldbergs $3,000,000 for the patent. The brothers replied that they would settle for $2,000,000, but they wanted a label that said “The Goldberg Air Conditioner” on the dashboard of every car in which it was installed.
Now old man Ford was proud of the Ford name, and he didn’t want the Goldbergs’ name on his cars. So they haggled back and forth, until the brothers finally agreed that Ford could use just their first names on the label.
That is why, to this day, the control on every Ford air conditioner says Lo, Norm, Hi, and Max.
bluebird of bitterness 
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*rimshot*
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Thank you for reblogging. 🙂
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You left out the Fresh and Recirc brothers…
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They hadn’t been born yet.
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🤣
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That’s hilarious. Ford was a crafty dude.
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🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I always wondered about that…
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Glad I was able to enlighten you. 🙂
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Now I have the lyrics to an old song playing in my head:
“Lord, Mr. Ford, how I wish that you could see
what your simple horseless carriage has become”
Thanks for the entertaining earworm, Bluebird! 😉
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Hilarious! 😀
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You had me till the end.
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This was great!
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