Box. As a cargo container made the world less, and the world economy is larger. Levinson M.

Incredible, but the modern world would not be like that if it were not a plain transport container. The modest box in less than half a century caused revolutionary changes in production, trade and cargo transportation, allowing the world economy to become truly global. The procession of the new format was not unconditionally triumphant: even in the 20th century, the overload of goods in the ports was carried out, as 3000 years ago with Phoenicians, and no one longed for changes. There was something to lose: the profession of the docker now died out, the previously famous ports like Liverpool and New York lost their significance, the railways had to almost completely update the wagons park, and the transfer of production for the ocean left the work of the inhabitants of many developed countries.