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>Wheeled Luggage I think that one is pretty obvious. You need to be a traveler going somewhere you need to bring luggage to... but it has to be somewhere you c
by ggggtez 7y ago
>Wheeled Luggage
I think that one is pretty obvious. You need to be a traveler going somewhere you need to bring luggage to... but it has to be somewhere you can't just have someone help you or use a dolly (e.g. taxi or hotel) but also needs to have smooth surface for the wheels (roads/sidewalks/flooring...), and it has to be a traveler who can't just afford to hire a servant/car/cart/horse to transport those goods.
Prior to train stations, is there any reasonable place a traveler could want to go that would even cause the necessary demand for wheeled luggage?
- Mvandenbergh 7y agoProbably not but wheeled luggage was invented almost two centuries after the railway!
- bluGill 7y agoThe railroad provided wheels. Every station had a large cart. Unload your trunk from the carriage to cart, then push the cart up to the train, then load onto the train where it was stacked. Nobody had to personally handle their luggage much, and they also typically carried a larger volume of stuff. As such built in wheels wouldn't have been desired for rail road travel as there already was wheels available when you needed them.