I still cannot get enough of this view of Stonehenge.
A prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles west of Amesbury.
It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet high, seven feet wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones.
Mr. Sadow was traveling in Puerto Rico with his family, lugging two heavy suitcases.
At San Juan Airport, he saw a porter use a wheeled luggage rack to effortlessly move other luggage.
When he returned home, he feverishly tinkered, attaching wheels to suitcases.
Sadow tried for months to interest stores in carrying his invention, without success. Finally, a Macyโs executive decided to take a chance on the wheeled suitcase. For a brief moment, the rest was history, with Sadow getting United States patent 3,653,474 for โRolling Luggageโ in 1972. But the patent was broken by competitors within a couple of years.
Now companies large and small offer their own versions of wheeled luggage.