Equality 7-2521 created an invention and it was new to his society but was not accepted,
We placed our glass box upon the table upon them. We spoke of it, and of our long quest and of our tunnel, and of our escape from the Palace of Corrective Detention. Not a hand moved in that hall, as we spoke, nor an eye. Then we put the wires to the box, and they all bent forward and sat still, watching. And we stood still, our eyes upon the wire. And slowly, slowly as the flush of blood, a red flame trembled from the wire. Then the wire glowed. … ‘You shall be burned at stake,’ … ‘No, they shall be lashed’ (Rand 70-72).
All he did was invent a new light which would benefit the society. He was being creative and he wanted to express himself, and he could be put to death. The one time someone in this society tried to be creative and show this to the higher people, they got rejected and