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The Goldberg Brothers - The Inventors of the Automobile Air Conditioner.

Here's a little known fact 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 to come in 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 inside, then 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 in fact 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-Jewish, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldbergs' 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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It was Willis Carrier . The first car was the Royal Chrysler. For US . Maybe some fella in Alice Springs beat them ? With wet bag on window ?

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