Electricity Spread More Quickly into Homes in Europe and North

question 55

Multiple Choice

Electricity spread more quickly into homes in Europe and North America because

• A) people there were more comfortable with government intrusion into private life.
• B) utilities there were funded by private customers.
• C) the populations in those areas were generally richer.
• D) cities were poorly lit, which meant individual homeowners had to pick up the slack.
• E) tariffs prevented the sale of incandescent bulbs in colonies.

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