Sunday: Gas Tests In The Capitol

bystander · Post by **bystander** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:57 pm

Gas Tests In The Capitol
Sunday Magazine | 10 Sept 2010

[size=110][b][i]GAS TESTS IN THE CAPITOL:[/i][/b][/size] Effect of Congressional “Hot Air” as Shown by Official Experiments [i]New York Times Sunday Magazine (11 Sept 1910)[/i] ([url=http://www.sundaymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/19100911-4-gas.pdf]PDF[/url])
Neither the House nor Senate chamber had fresh air circulation, so carbon monoxide was building up in various parts of the Capitol building. In order to make improvements to air flow, air quality tests needed to be done. The prospect of reporting on which parts of the Capitol had the most gas was just too delicious for the Sunday Magazine to resist. Oh, the hilarity.