Question

One of the main reasons that electric motors were significant to the industrialization of the late nineteenth century was that they:

a. freed factories to locate wherever they wished, and not just by waterfalls and coal deposits.
b. powered the first lightbulbs.
c. were used in the first automobiles.
d. eliminated the need for oil during the industrial revolution.
e. forced railroads to abandon the use of steam power.

Answer 1

a. prior to that, factories had to locate close to where their power supplies were.