Ok, off the top of my head...

The wheel, no debate, is #1
The plow (agriculture)
Gun powder
Printing press
Steam engine and internal combustion engine.
Radar
Transistor/semiconductors

I'm missing about a million of them. Many innovations can be added which brings me to the point of this meaningless post...

Cast iron pans. They have to be somewhere on the list. I love a good well seasoned cast iron pan. It's my go to for cooking.

(ball bearings, zippers, and Velcro also fall in there somewhere but you can't cook with ball bearings, zippers, or Velco)

Steel

Beer

69

Boat was a pretty good idea

[quote=Gene363]Steel[/quote]

Agreed

[quote=deadeyedick]Beer[/quote]

Alcohol doesn't fit for a human invention, mother nature made it. Someone along the way had some spoiled fruit in a jug and yeast fermented it. Boom... we got booze.

[quote=Jakethesnake86]Boat was a pretty good idea[/quote]

Agreed

NINE!

[quote=delta1]69[/quote]

Not a human invention. I'm all for it... but I would say it's not a human invention.

I made the post so I can make the rules.

No votes for tie rod guards?

On a serious note: lenses. Used to read the words in a book and pass on knowledge, it allows us to see the outer limits of space, the microscopic world we live in and all else in between

On a less than serious note, Doritos.

Almost 30 years ago, I asked my wife’s grand parents a similar question.
“What was the greatest invention for you”.
(Keep in mind they were both born before 1905.)

Grandma took all of 2 seconds to answer…………….washer and dryer!
Grandpa thought about for a couple minutes, then said……………..television!

And grandpa did love his TV. He was one of the first to have one back in the day, and then one of the first to have one of those HUGE satellite dishes in his back yard.
My father-in-law had to pour an 8x8 slab of concrete in their backyard just to mount that monster in the ground!
I miss them both…..

Toilets.
Patio furniture.
HVAC systems.
Sammiches.

[quote=8trackdisco]Toilets.
Patio furniture.
HVAC systems.
Sammiches.[/quote]
It's like I am looking in a mirror.

[quote=8trackdisco]Toilets.
Patio furniture.
HVAC systems.
Sammiches.[/quote]

Acceptable... as long as they are not one in the same

The 1911
The revolver
The lever rifle
The M1 Garand
Etc.

[quote=KingoftheCove]Almost 30 years ago, I asked my wife’s grand parents a similar question.
“What was the greatest invention for you”.
(Keep in mind they were both born before 1905.)

Grandma took all of 2 seconds to answer…………….washer and dryer!
Grandpa thought about for a couple minutes, then said……………..television!

And grandpa did love his TV. He was one of the first to have one back in the day, and then one of the first to have one of those HUGE satellite dishes in his back yard.
My father-in-law had to pour an 8x8 slab of concrete in their backyard just to mount that monster in the ground!
I miss them both…..[/quote]

TV, radio, and internet have had HUGE impacts on human evolution.

It was a big deal when we graduated from a 13" B&W to a 19" color TV. Big investment back then. Now days, you can buy flipping 50" high def flat screen (low end but way better resolution that the old CRTs) and mount it on the wall for the price of a dinner and a movie night out with the family.

AND you don't have to get up off the couch to change the channels (98.2% of them suck anyway)

slide in Sketchers

[quote=KingoftheCove]The 1911
The revolver
The lever rifle
The M1 Garand
Etc.[/quote]

Good picks. Firearms have a solid place in human evolution. Some may say bad, some may say good.

(I'd love to own an M1)

[quote=frankj1]slide in Sketchers[/quote]

For footwear I'd say steel toe boots, slip on shoes and wrestling shoes. Neither of them make or break society but are in my rotation of daily footwear.

Flip flops, especially those that have that thing between the big toe and the other toes... could go extinct for all I care... along with ticks and mosquitoes