<P> Luggage carriers -- light - weight wheeled carts or harnesses on which luggage could be temporarily place or that can be temporarily attached to luggage -- date at least to the 1930s , such as in US patent 2,132,316 `` Luggage carrier '' by Anne W. Newton ( filed 1937 , published 1938 ) . These were refined over the following decades , as reflected in patents such as US patent 2,650,105 A `` Luggage carriage '' ( filed 1949 , published 1953 ) and US patent 2,670,969 `` Luggage carriage harness , both by Kent R. Costikyan . However , the wheels were external to the suitcases . Patents were published for wheeled luggage -- a wheeled trunk in 1887 , and a wheeled suitcase in 1945 -- but these were not successfully commercialized . </P>
<P> Luggage carriers -- light - weight wheeled carts or harnesses on which luggage could be temporarily place or that can be temporarily attached to luggage -- date at least to the 1930s , such as in US patent 2,132,316 `` Luggage carrier '' by Anne W. Newton ( filed 1937 , published 1938 ) . These were refined over the following decades , as reflected in patents such as US patent 2,650,105 A `` Luggage carriage '' ( filed 1949 , published 1953 ) and US patent 2,670,969 `` Luggage carriage harness , both by Kent R. Costikyan . However , the wheels were external to the suitcases . Patents were published for wheeled luggage -- a wheeled trunk in 1887 , and a wheeled suitcase in 1945 -- but these were not successfully commercialized . </P>
when was the first suitcase with wheels invented
when was the first suitcase with wheels invented
at least to the 1930s
at least to the 1930s