The concept you’re groping around I think is “the adjacent possible”.

You can’t create the battery without understanding chemical potential energy and several other concepts. Imagine a house with infinite rooms branching off one another, you can’t reach a distant room without travelling through the adjoining rooms.

The basic building blocks of everything already exist and have done since the first fraction of a second after the big bang, the key is to navigate a route through to the adjoining room.

Think of the inventions of Da Vinci, many of those were considered vastly ahead of their time, he was able to “see” forward into other rooms not adjacent but there didn’t exist the technology to realise his dreams of flight etc.