isaac rice is -- is approached by two -- kind of hustlers. one was a man named william collins withwhen i who does been secretary of the navy under glover cleveland, and was the patriarch of the whitney fortune and stockbroker with one of the great names ever in finance. this was his real name he didn't change it. he was thomas fortune arena. and ryan an whitsny and peter in philadelphia buy out rice. and proceed to create this paper company, and they're just about to get indicted for fraud and they have to go through -- that's the other book. but that's one of the reasons we "don't ask, don't don't have electric cars right now that's one of the reasons they stop dead was -- what whitney and thomas fortune ryan did to the car. but anyway so isaac rice has all of this money and he's looking around for places to put it, applications because he still believes in -- electricity. and he find, discovers told ab man named john phillip holland who has a contract with the navy to build a submarine to build undersea craft . and he goes to town, but col

and in 1898, isaac rice introduced the first commercial fleet of vehicles in the world, certainly in the united states, i think in the world, it was a fleet of 12 electric tax sis in new york city. and it was brilliantly done. he had a charging station and just -- i can't go into detail because it's not about submarines which we haven't gotten to i know. but it was just so amazingly done, and in february of 1899, there was a blizzard in new york city that stopped everything, even the horses couldn't get by, except isaac rice's electric taxis. and in both books in drive and in going deep, there's a picture in 1899 of one of these electric tax sunday negotiating the streets after this blizzard. so, the stock price of the electric vehicle company goes from $20 a share to $120 a share. isaac rice is approached by two kind of hustlers, one was a man named william collins whitney who had been secretary of the navy under grover cleveland, and was the patriarch of the whitney family fortune, and the other was a strong broke who has one of the great names ever in finance, his real anyway. he

ultimately, isaac rice and a.b. frost was originally holland partner and then became racist partner forced right partner forced right side of his own business. rice had developed a fast attack submarine designed which was tested. the records are a little sketchy, but he had a boat that was reported to do 22 nods when they were doing 89. so you have this situation were just to go back to the whole innovation issue, he was at utterly brilliant inventor, one of the great scientist this country has ever produced and i'm not going to go into birdman, but chose to focus on his business and instead in 1909 token all sorts of high-powered investors to go back to the workshop and improve the wright flyer. and dad is subsequently killed him. the last letter he ever wrote in his life was not while he was dying. it is to frederick fisher's patent attorney complained about the slow progress and how much money it was costing them. henry ford who has a reputation as a great inventor, but is actually not an inventor at all but a br