This Day in History: 1928-08-12

Automotive exhaust gasses will be extensively studied at the University of Pittsburgh, the American Chemical Society announces today in 1928. Others involved are from the National Safety Council and the US Bureau of Mines. The major subject of the study will be carbon monoxide, the society announces. Leaded gasoline, which had been highly controversial only a few years before, is not mentioned. The ACS statement says: “The information at hand regarding the amount of carbon monoxide to which the public is exposed and the probable effects of such amounts leads the committee to believe that in general no alarming condition exists in the thoroughfares. In closed or confined places, the danger is greater.”