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AC electric motor repair is often done these days, typically for generator turbines and the like, whether for power plants or ship and aircraft engines.
Nothing unusual about any of that.
But at one time, just a little over a century ago, AC, or alternating current, and DC, or direct current, were quite controversial matters – especially for the two men bitterly locked in what would become recognized to history as the great War of the Currents.

Sure, AC electric motor repair is typical enough these days, but back then, AC was new, and at first appeared unsafe – ironic considering that it won out over DC in several applications due to the superior safety.
But before this came about, there were the most acrimonious protests, right down to court battles, not forgetting personal smearing strategies in the court of public opinion, against AC, the newer technology.

While it’s arguable that the superior AC standard would’ve gradually been adopted, it’s almost certain that the campaign against it, and its most well known proponent, delayed its widespread use for quite a few years.
While something similar to AC electric motor repair is still rather qualified work, it isn’t the revoluntionary thing it was back when engines running on AC were deemed exotic and, as mentioned before, dangerous.

Thomas Edison, the great inventor, used AC’s initial faults as a method of personally attacking his one-time assistant Nikola Tesla, another brilliant mind.
Likely as a result of skilled jealousy (though a lot of money was also at stake, as numerous patent royalties were involved), Edison went to great lengths to discredit not only the technology but its most well known proponent – to the point of macabre demonstrations electrocuting animals and even a condemned prisoner in order to get the public agitated against AC!