I mean do you think if we looked in 40, 80, 160, etc year increments there would be outstanding examples of how technology made such an impact it changed everything, and that line could be traced all the way through known history?
This is a good/interesting question. I would be also interested in the answer. I can currently think of only the industrial revolution(s), but I am not sure whether that can be "traced all the way through known history".
I think it depends on how one defines technology. The written word could be considered such (I think), as could prehistoric methods of fire preservation (also debatable(?), but I think if we don’t exclude everything that isn’t mechanical in nature, technology and evolution can sometimes be difficult to differentiate between.