isochronism

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When the balance is slightly out of poise and the motion is exactly one and one-fourth turn during the twenty-four hours, this out of poise will not affect the isochronism.

From Rules and Practice for Adjusting Watches by Kleinlein, Walter J.

If the isochronism is but little impaired, we obtain a note corresponding to the mean interval of the shocks.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

Dr. Hooke, the inventor of the balance spring, soon discovered it could be manipulated to isochronism, i.e., so arcs of different extent would be formed in equal time.

From Watch and Clock Escapements A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology by Anonymous

It was thus with the application of the isochronism of the pendulum to the making of instruments for measuring intervals, astronomical and other.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Spencer, Herbert

The isochronism of the vibrations of the pendulum inferred from this observation was not published or put to practical application in clocks for nearly sixty years afterward.

From Inventions in the Century by Doolittle, William Henry