> We put men on the moon before we put wheels on luggage.
This claim was so outlandish that I had to fact-check it. Wikipedia says:
> Luggage carriers [...] date at least to the 1930s [...] However, the wheels were external to the suitcases. [...] The first commercially successful rolling suitcase was invented in 1970.
It appears you're technically correct. The best kind of correct.
It's even whackier that it took them another 17 years to figure out the optimal design - the first two-wheeler with an extending handle didn't hit the market until 1987.
This claim was so outlandish that I had to fact-check it. Wikipedia says:
> Luggage carriers [...] date at least to the 1930s [...] However, the wheels were external to the suitcases. [...] The first commercially successful rolling suitcase was invented in 1970.
It appears you're technically correct. The best kind of correct.