One of the main reasons that electric motors were significant to the industrialization of the late nineteenth century was that they:
A) were used in the first automobiles.
B) powered the first lightbulbs.
C) freed factories to locate wherever they wished, and not just by waterfalls and coal deposits.
D) forced railroads to abandon the use of steam power.
E) eliminated the need for oil during the Industrial Revolution.
Ans: C) freed factories to locate wherever they wished, and not just by waterfalls and coal deposits.
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