Wheeled luggage among all-time top travel aids
Jet travel, hotel magnetic key cards, travel insurance, smart phones and digital cameras may be essential and among the most useful elements that have revolutionized modern travel but also consider wheeled luggage.
“Wheeled luggage celebrated its 40th birthday in 2010, marking four decades of salvaged arm muscles and rescued backs,” writes Smarter Travel in their top ten of the “Best Travel Inventions of all Time.”
It was not until the 1970s that travelers forsake their heavy, boxy suitcases and turned to wheels.
This is thanks to Bernard D. Sadow, former vp of U.S. Luggage (the parent company of Briggs & Riley). His United States patent No. 3,653,474 was titled “Rolling Luggage. He later said he spotted a skid with wheels as he was lugging a pair of heavy suitcases with his wife prompted the idea.
By David Wilkening
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