Verified locator: Primary 1959 article, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 31(6), 387–396; first byline Ole Storstein. Methods describes intra-esophageal balloon pressure measurement and a Sanborn differential pressure transducer connected also to mouthpiece pressure. The paper distinguishes compliance from airway resistance.
Methods, simultaneous-curve and compliance-definition paragraphs, pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2604028/ : pressure, tidal volume and flow were recorded together; effective compliance used corresponding no-mouth-airflow points. Discussion, opening paragraph, explicitly notes treating a nonuniform mechanical system as uniform. These are the measurement-definition and model-limit passages cited in the Storstein profile.