They don’t save on ingenious brains!

In 1910, the famous American automaker Henry Ford built a huge car factory in Detroit. A powerful electric generator was ordered for the plant, which was supposed to provide electricity to all the machines in the plant. The generator was brought in, mounted, but when it was started, it turned out that it was very buzzing, heated and did not give up half of the required power. For many days, experts were busy with the generator, but could not understand anything.

The situation for Ford was critical: the delay in launching the plant threatened with huge losses. And he decided to take an extreme step - he invited Professor Charles Steinmets to the factory of one of the leading American electrical engineers. The professor arrived, walked around the generator and ordered that they bring him a cot, a piece of chalk, a notebook and a pencil — he wanted to work at night. All night, Steinmets walked around the generator, put mysterious marks with chalk, then lay on a cot and calculated something in a notebook.

In the morning he said that they removed the generator cover and wound 16 turns from the induction coil. After that, the generator was started and it worked silently and began to give off power even more than that for which it was designed. The enraptured Ford thanked the professor and asked for a bill for the work done. Soon a bill came in for $ 10,000. The sum at that time was enormous, but Ford's enthusiasm had already passed. He began to look for an excuse not to pay money and sent Steinmets a letter asking him to detail the account, to make costing. Such a calculation Steinmets sent.

Here's what it looked like: for finding a malfunction - $ 1, for knowing where to look - $ 9,999 Total: $ 10,000

After that, Ford immediately paid the money. And there is a lesson for our new industrialists: you cannot save on ingenious brains!