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IN Maxwell's “Theory of Heat” (p. 207) is a drawing showing some of the principal lines on a thermodynamical model suggested by Prof. J. Willard Gibbs, of Yale University. I have been told that Prof. Maxwell had two of these models constructed, one of which remained at Cambridge, England, the other being sent to Prof. Gibbs at Yale, There is also a copy of this model at Clark University, Worcester, the only one which I have seen. While there may be others in existence, these are the only ones which I have known of, and I suspect that very few have ever been constructed.
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BOYNTON, W. Gibbs's Thermodynamical Model. Nature 61, 414–415 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061414a0
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