So why didn't Conant's isochronal design become common among precision pendulum clocks? I wonder if it comes down to: 1. Was the theoretical 16-fold reduction in erro as much as what could be gained from air pressure compensation and free escapements that were adopted by the mainstream of regulator development? 2. If a normal astro regulator was $200 and this four-pendulum model was $1,600, why not just buy four normal regulators and average them by hand? 3. The mechanical complexity; perhaps it led to unreliability, and incurred in its own timekeeping problems? 4. The irregular movement of the averaged seconds hand is just weird
How ingenious - I would suggest that compared to the first clock, the improvement here must be the idea of having pendulums of different lengths, so there is less possibility of sympathetic influence.
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