Celebrating the Wheeled Suitcase

US Luggage debuted its wheeled suitcase in 1970. According to CNN, Bernard Sadow had trouble selling his rolling suitcase idea. He showed the idea to department stores in New York City and to buying offices but everybody thought he was crazy to attach wheels to luggage. He was inspired himself with the idea when he was going through customs in Puerto Rico with two large 27-inch suitcases that were tightly packed and didn’t have any help with them when he saw someone moving a piece of machinery on a wheeled platform. So he attached four casters to the bottom of a suitcase and added a flexible strap and tried selling his new wheeled luggage with the suitcase trailing behind him. He finally impressed the vice president of Macy’s and Sadow applied for a US patent in 1970 and in 1972 he got the first successful patent on wheeled suitcases. It took almost 20 years for the next advancement in rolling luggage. Today’s luggage, pulled on two wheels with a retractable handle was invented in the 80s by Northwest Airlines pilot Bob Plath.
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