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Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Aug 26 18:55:40 2008 edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d The 3 Goldberg brothers, Norman, Hiram, and Max, invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946, the temperature in Detroit was 97 degrees. The 3 brothers walked into old man Henry Ford's office and sweet-talked his secretary into telling him that 3 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 that it was installed in. Now old man Ford was more than just a little anti-Semitic, and there was no way he was going to put the Goldbergs' name on 2 million Fords. They haggled back and forth for about 2 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 Norm, Hi and Max on the controls.
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by JournalSquare-K-Car* on Tue Aug 26 19:29:51 2008, in response to Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Aug 26 18:55:40 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Is that really true?
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Jeff Rosen* on Tue Aug 26 19:31:16 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Tue Aug 26 19:29:51 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Yes, check your car air-conditioner, you'll see those three names under the controls.
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Posted by daDouce Man* on Tue Aug 26 19:34:11 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Aug 26 19:31:16 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Are you saying that with a tonque-in-cheek?
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by AMoreira81* on Tue Aug 26 19:34:51 2008, in response to Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Aug 26 18:55:40 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Good one. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Save me.
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by SUBWAYSURF* on Tue Aug 26 19:35:40 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by daDouce Man on Tue Aug 26 19:34:11 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Don't he ALWAYS?
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Jeff Rosen* on Tue Aug 26 19:42:55 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by daDouce Man on Tue Aug 26 19:34:11 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Consider who I'm answering.
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Orange Blossom Special* on Tue Aug 26 19:49:02 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by AMoreira81 on Tue Aug 26 19:34:51 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d What's so funny? Car airconditioners exist. I have one in mine. :)
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by daDouce Man* on Tue Aug 26 19:56:57 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Aug 26 19:42:55 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d I'd rather consider what the answer is.
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by RonInBayside* on Tue Aug 26 20:04:55 2008, in response to Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Aug 26 18:55:40 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d 8-)
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by BMT Guy* on Tue Aug 26 22:37:58 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by daDouce Man on Tue Aug 26 19:34:11 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d It could be with his tongue in someone else's cheek...but that's for Jeff to know and for the rest of us to find out! LOL
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by BMT Guy* on Tue Aug 26 22:41:38 2008, in response to Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Aug 26 18:55:40 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Speaking of inventions, wasn't the modern toilet invented by an Englishman named Sir John Crapper? ;-)
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Easy* on Tue Aug 26 22:50:26 2008, in response to Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by Jeff Rosen on Tue Aug 26 18:55:40 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d where he offered them $3 million for the patent. The brothers refused, saying they would settle for $2 million That's definitely not according to the stereotype.
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by AMoreira81* on Tue Aug 26 23:07:05 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by BMT Guy on Tue Aug 26 22:41:38 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d The name is Thomas Crapper...he didn't invent it. He only popularized the modern toilet.
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Orange Blossom Special* on Tue Aug 26 23:14:56 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by AMoreira81 on Tue Aug 26 23:07:05 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d yea, you couldn't get me to sit on one of those things until Thomas made it cool to do so! :p
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by BMTLines* on Wed Aug 27 00:17:00 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Tue Aug 26 19:29:51 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Since you believe that I can get you a great deal on a bridge that goes from Manhattan to Brooklyn? No money down - take 20 years to pay. Low interest financing. Interested?
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Olog-hai* on Wed Aug 27 03:36:05 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by JournalSquare-K-Car on Tue Aug 26 19:29:51 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Absolutely!
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Olog-hai* on Wed Aug 27 03:36:39 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by BMTLines on Wed Aug 27 00:17:00 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d How much to rebuild that "robust" Myrtle Avenue El on it again?
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Olog-hai* on Wed Aug 27 03:42:59 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by AMoreira81 on Tue Aug 26 23:07:05 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d Crapper sold a lot of Alexander Cummings' type of toilet. There are still, apparently, some manhole covers with the name of his company on it (named after him) in Westminster Abbey.
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by TunnelRat* on Wed Aug 27 07:28:47 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Aug 26 23:14:56 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d "made it cool to do so"did he air condition it?
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Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner
Posted by Orange Blossom Special* on Wed Aug 27 17:06:31 2008, in response to Re: Inventors of the car air conditioner, posted by TunnelRat on Wed Aug 27 07:28:47 2008.* edf40wrjww2msgDetailOT:detailStr fiogf49gjkf0d not unless he was japanese. This is funny, I saw a blurb in the paper just last week about a dude patenting an invention that's a fan in the bowl for public restrooms. There was no pic, so I don't know how it works.
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