> I have made plenty of things where understanding the depths of what I had made took far more time and effort than building the thing in the first place. An e

> I have made plenty of things where understanding the depths of what I had made took far more time and effort than building the thing in the first place. An example of this is electricity. The battery (1800), electric motor (1821) and telegraph (1832) were all invented before the discovery of the electron (1897).