When a person invents something, errors are unavoidable. That's why other people reinvent that technology and develops it to be easier and faster than before.
If a pieace of other technology is old and want new technology you need to build a new type of technology that you could use and do other stuff like using something old and making it new!
Nickel plating tarnished and developed green corrosion, but that problem was eradicated in the late 1920s with the development of commercially practical chromium plating.
