That’s remarkable

Neil Armstrong walked on the moon before the creation of wheeled luggage.

It just seems so strange given how obvious the idea of wheeled suitcases is now, but while the US spent billions on plans for landing on the moon in the early 1960s (not to mention the moon landing in 1969), wheeled cases weren’t invented until the early 1970s by Bernie Sadow.

(US patent 3,653,474 for “Rolling Luggage“).

The retractable telescoping handle wasn’t invented until the late 1980s by Robert Plath.

So now you know

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