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Benjamin Phillips and Archibald J. Cozens, the owners of a steam-engine patent, were the principal backers in an unnamed Philadelphia firm concerned with the navigation of canals by steam which was possibly called the Canal Steamboat Company for a time. A steam-boat, named The Benjamin Phillips and...
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| Collection: | Phillips-Cozens Record Book |
| Collection Number: | Am.9305 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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Benjamin Phillips and Archibald J. Cozens, the owners of a steam-engine patent, were the principal backers in an unnamed Philadelphia firm concerned with the navigation of canals by steam which was possibly called the Canal Steamboat Company for a time. A steam-boat, named The Benjamin Phillips and the Fair Mount Water-works are mentioned.
Record book, 1829, containing minutes of weekly and special meetings of the stockholders of what was possibly known as the Canal Steamboat Company, a list of the stockholders dated 1830 and a printed advertisement soliciting aid in the construction of a full-size steamboat. |