Introduction

The story of the rolling suit case has become somewhat of a favorite anecdote for people like me to wheel out when trying to inject some hubrous into conversations about invent ion and innovation. Katrine marsal, author of the book mothers of invention, suggests that there's an even bigger gap in this story. Her research suggests there were social blind spots that prevented us from widely adopting wheeled luggage. She discovered existed long before its official invention date, back in t 19 seventies.