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We Landed on the Moon Before Suitcases Got Wheels: The True Story of Bernard Sadow
The true story of Bernard Sadow, the luggage company executive who put wheels on suitcases in 1970, a year after people walked on the Moon. Dragging two heavy suitcases through an airport on the way home from a family holiday in Aruba, he watched a worker roll a heavy machine on a wheeled platform and said: that's what we need for luggage. Department stores turned him down because they thought men would rather carry their bags. Then Macy's said yes, and in 1972 he received the patent for rolling luggage. Seventeen years later a pilot stood the suitcase upright on two wheels, and today almost…
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