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 ...

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 ...