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Gotta be the wheel, 2nd perhaps is controlled fire, tho I'm not sure that qualifies as an invention.
Because of the wheel, roads were invented. Because of roads, The Roman Empire flourished. Roads were established at standard widths, so the mass-produced(for want of a better term) carts and chariots were standardized to fit the roads. Railroads and modern roads dimensions are based on the Roman road dimensions. Sometimes exactly where the Roman roads were. Because that is true, Space Shuttle boosters had to be dimensioned to fit through railroad tunnels between plant and end- use. That's an invention that has survived, spanned and determined people's fates, lifestyles, etc, for thousands of years right into the Space Age.
Gears, pulleys, capstans are other of even more derivatives of the wheel.
Now, if we talk of what invention has affected the greatest number of people, secondary to the wheel, I haven't decided. There are many.
Most everything, now, depends partly on the use of the wheel and it's derivatives - mining, electrical generation, computers, food production, transportation, and the list goes on and on.
If the wheel and it's derivatives go away, we are back to animal power, at best. If anyone survives at all, it will be at most a million or so people scattered throughout the earth scratching out a living with sticks, whether planting or hunting.
I suppose your point of view would determine if that would be a "good" or a "bad" thing. I don't know about that. The loss of modern technology would be devastating through the transition. But an equilibrium would come as the populations balanced. For instance, the preColumbian population of the Americas is estimated at 60,000,000 to 120,000,000. All without benefit of the wheel.
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the rifled barrel
helped us kill each other efficiently & accurately
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If this poll were on the Democrat Underground, the winner would be the Dominion voting system.
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Spandex.
The inventor should have got the Nobel Peace Prize.
Whoever first came out with plus sized spandex should have been placed on the guillotine.
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If this poll were on the Democrat Underground, the winner would be the Dominion voting system. Lol !
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Arcimedes' screw
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The printing press must be amongst them.
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Anything but the wheel. 6000 years later and we’re still stuck with it. Its like we just “gave up” after that one. One would think with all of the other advancements in the world we would have moved past it as the main means of transportation.
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AA battery...
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I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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..., sure, wheel I guess, if you like working all the time..., but nobody's mentioned the bow and arrow, that would get my vote.., guess I just think about food more than you guys..
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Agriculture.
We'd still be hunter gathers without it.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
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