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c.1854 Invented a water meter
c.1860 David Chadwick formed a small company Chadwick and Frost to work Herbert Frost's water meter patents of 1855 and 1857.
1862 Patent sealed January 1862: H. Frost, Manchester, manager of the Manchester Water Meter Company — improvements in apparatus for measuring fluids. Dated October 22, 1861 [1]
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