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Ford Air Conditioners. When were air conditioner's first put in cars? Here is something you car buff's may or may not know! The 3 Goldberg brother's, Norman, Hiram, & Maxwell invented and developed the first automobile air-conditioner. On July 17, 1946, the tempature in Detroit was 97. 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 asked him to step outside to their car. They pursaded him to get into their car which was about 130- turned on the air conditioner and cooled the car off immediately. The old man got very excited were he invited the 3 men back inside and offered them 3 million dollars for the patent. The brothers refused, but said they would settle for 2 million dollars but they wanted the recognition by having a label "The Goldberg Air-Conditioner" on each dashboard of the car that the air conditioner was installed on. Now Ford was more than alittle Anti-Semetic and there was no way he was going to put the Goldberg's name on over 2 million Ford cars. They aurgued back and forth for over 2 hours and finally agreed on 4 million dollars and just their first name would be shown, and so even today, all Ford air-conditioners today show their names on the controls, Norm, Hi, & Max. Pretty good piece of history wasn't it?I love history and think we all need to remember from time to time how we all got to where we are today and the great people that helped us to get here. Isn't our world wonderful?