What did the text suggest was the primary goal for an inventor like Murray, compared to focusing on a single revolutionary device?

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To incrementally eliminate every single point of failure in a vast, complex network

For an inventor like Murray solving infrastructure problems, the goal was not necessarily to create a single, revolutionary device, but rather to incrementally eliminate every single point of failure in a vast, complex network.

What did the text suggest was the primary goal for an inventor like Murray, compared to focusing on a single revolutionary device?
inventioninventorThomas E. Murray