The Electric Launch Company, later renamed Elco Motor Yachts ("Elco"), is an American boat building and electric motor company that has operated from 1893 to 1949 and from 1987 to the present.
An Elco Electric Launch on Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks
Plaque in Bayonne commemorates Elco
Lt (jg). Kennedy (right) with crew of PT-109
Isaac Leopold Rice was a German-born Jewish American businessman, investor, musicologist, author, and chess patron. As part of a successful career in the manufacturing industry, in 1899 he acquired the Holland Torpedo Boat Company, which was renamed the Electric Boat Company and produced submarines for the U.S. and British navies. It continues today as General Dynamics Electric Boat.
Isaac Rice, published 1905
The Isaac L. and Julia B. Rice House, a New York City landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, currently Yeshiva Ketana of Manhattan