Travelers around the world today are pulling suitcases with wheels. Oct. 4, 2010— -- It seems like such a simple concept, but when Bernard Sadow decided to put wheels on a suitcase 40 years ...

What good is a set of wheels on the bottom of your suitcase if somewhere between checking your bag and retrieving it from a luggage carousel one or two of them have been broken off? Your bags are ...

The Rollaboard was invented in 1987 by Robert Plath, a Northwest Airlines 747 pilot and avid home workshop tinkerer, who affixed two wheels and a long handle to suitcases that rolled upright ...

“This was when the brilliant idea of using wheels on suitcases stuck in his mind.” Back home in Fall River, Mass., he tinkered with the idea and put it into production. “Four steel trunk ...