stackyFACTSBefore 1952, carrying stuff on your back meant suffering under the weight of a floppy, unstructured canvas sack. Dick Kelty changed the game by welding parachute webbing and aluminum tubing together, accidentally birthing the modern backpack and saving millions of spines.
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Backpacks are great, but indigenous peoples realized long ago that human shoulders are weak. A tumpline is a strap that loops over the top of your head,…
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Most professionals carry a backpack every single day, yet it contains nothing but an umbrella, a laptop they won't use, and three crushed mints. It has…
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Before this incredibly simple metal stick was invented, riders basically had to awkwardly prop their extremely heavy machines against brick walls or just…
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Before it became a tool to shame you into taking 10,000 steps, the pedometer was designed to track physical distance. Thomas Jefferson was completely obsessed…
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Airbus engineers designed a bizarrely shaped cargo plane known as the Beluga solely because they needed a vehicle large enough to transport entire sections of…
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