New Molecule
This shows that sometimes 'rote' education is stifling the creative process. Students don't know something is "impossible", or "you can't do that", so they just do, or build it! Old school was to teach the '3Rs'. That is all they did, and this led to many mechanical innovations, as students WEREN'T taught what they 'couldn't do'. Take railroads: coupling rail cars with the 'link and pin' system led to many deaths, and the 'knuckle coupler', in use today, was invented; the term, "the real McCoy" was coined for an invention of Elijah McCoy, the designer of an automatic oiling system for steam engines, which allowed them to run faster and longer, although he was only an oiler for the Michigan Central Railroad.
