7 Fascinating Inventions That Changed Travel For Better And Easier Dear Tourist Did you know that these amazing inventions changed the way we travel - we'll share them with you and their amazing history. Amazing inventions that changed the world Ways to transport baggage during travel
In 1972, Bernard Sadoo patented rolling luggage,
revolutionizing travel. Many of the essential items on modern voyages
have a long history. Whether it was an official mandate or people who excelled
in proposing a particular idea that aroused interest and changed reality for
the better in a particular field, with this simple invention they enabled
people to travel around the world, while democratizing travel and
making it faster.
Back bag
Despite centuries of military backpack use ("ruck"
means back in German and "sack" means bag), the modern backpack
didn't appear until 1938. Gerry Cunningham, a rock climber in Boulder,
Colorado, pioneered an innovative model By replacing the nylon fabric with
something new and incorporating zippers.
“The Backpack allows the user
to travel with hands-free comfort, carry tons and access a lot –
definitely the best way to travel,” said Jamie Cormack, co-founder of
Herschel Supply Company.
Travel in past decades:
"In the '60s and '70s,
climbing got a lot better - the way people climbed and the way they used gear
and seat belts, whether it was for military purposes or mountaineering, to be
lighter with better efficiency." The diamond leather tongue on their Heritage
packaging refers to the era, when climbers looped a piece of tape through the
two slits to carry various equipment, including ice picks.
Hotel key card
1978
US Patent:
"Such locks are of particular interest to hotels, where it is not uncommon
for guests to forget to leave the key upon departure or the key is otherwise
lost." "For security reasons, it would be advisable to change the
lock set to a new key."
Other forms of reusable keys were developed, but VingCard
fixed flaws with magnetism and is still an industry standard. The cards were
first issued outside Norway in 1978 at the Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta,
Georgia which at the time was the tallest hotel in the world.
GPS: Global Positioning System
Before GPS, different branches of the US military relied on
their own disparate methods of navigating through air, water, and land.
Civilians contented themselves with paper maps and a compass for driving,
hiking, and walking.
Then, during the Labor Day holiday in 1973, US military
directives changed movement on the entire planet. Officials from the Air Force,
Army, Navy and Department of Transportation crowded into a room at the Pentagon
and were ordered to stay outside until they came up with a global navigation
system.
It came with the GPS architecture, says Paul Serozzi, curator
of the Smithsonian Institution and co-author of Time and Navigation: The Untold
Story of Getting From Here to There.
Four decades later, the 24-satellite system is still in
service by the US Air Force. “Your taxes pay for it. Anyone can use it anywhere
in the world for free.
They thought about trying to charge a fee but they couldn't
figure out how to do it.” That's right, the US currently has a GPS that serves
the entire planet, but Europe, China and Russia are trying to produce their own
systems which may come with user fees.
The iPad
Airplanes at LAX in Los Angeles, California
Before the advent of the iPad, airplanes carried an extensive
"Airplane Library" of technical manuals.
Aside from its ability to wow anxious passengers, the iPad
has revolutionized travel, aviation and tourism by replacing the
Airplane Library, a huge collection of technical manuals previously stored in
the cockpit.
"I don't think passengers are
going to believe the amount of paper we're used to carrying around the
world," said Mark Vanhunker, British Airways' chief operating officer and
author of Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot.
This included separate books devoted to take-off, landing and
weight distribution, and paperwork for every imaginable circumstance, including
birth in flight.
"For a long-range aircraft
like the 747, we need blueprints for almost all the airspace and all the major
airports on the planet."
Now the information has passed to your iPad, also known as a
portable electronic flight case. "It can be updated with the press of a
button rather than painstakingly dragging manuals from hundreds of aircraft in
order to switch individual pages in and out," he added. “Then there is the
fuel savings. Every pound that can be taken off the plane results in a huge
fuel savings every time the plane flies.”
Automated teller machine: Automated teller machine
24-7
days before the
advent of cash machines, travel was more massive, risky, and less
spontaneous. Even at home, tourists exchanged cash for travelers checks,
which were considered safer because they could be traced back to the number.
Foreign trips involved converting cash into foreign currency
even before calling a taxi and then returning to the local currency and paying
the fee with each transaction. The ATM, which evolved from three independent
machines - two in the UK and one in Sweden - eventually changed all that.
“Bankers were approaching engineers in search of a solution rather than the
ingenuity of one man,” says Bernardo Battiz-Lazo, a professor at Bangor
University who co-authored Cash Box: The Invention and Globalization of the ATM.
The machines were "a means of extending banking services
to the working class while avoiding overcrowding in the branches." Between
consumer distrust and flaws with the machine, the integrations took a decade of
trial and error. After the standardization of credit card volumes in the
mid-1970s, plastic ATM cards became the norm.
Suitcase
The suitcase had already revolutionized travel by the
time US Patent No. 3,653,474 was filed. Before her arrival, travel was
reserved for the wealthy, who had servants to lift heavy baggage.
Then, in 1972, Bernard de Sado recorded his idea,
"Rolling Baggage". He suggested that "Baggage made according to
this invention was found to be easily transportable.
Luggage actually slips. Furthermore, pretty much anyone,
regardless of size, strength or age, can easily pull luggage without effort or
strain.”
It took years for the idea to take off, with marketers
assuming that men would not accept the purchase. "It was a very manly
thing," Sado, who died in 2011, told the New York Times.
Electrical transformers
Manufacturers of vacuum cleaners and washing machines did not
take into account international markets when developing their products,
allowing for different electrical and socket standards around the world.
Fortunately, the advent of transformers and adapters has reduced the chance of
a hair dryer blowing up in a foreign bathroom or having to buy new appliances
in every country. Gabriella Ehrlich of the Switzerland-based International
Electro technical Commission is optimistic about a future that is more fluid
than ever.
Global growth in small appliances may lead to the LVDC (Low
Voltage Direct Current) standard. "This means we may not actually need
certain types of adapters anymore — the little black 'boxes' now between the
plug and the laptop," she explains. Meanwhile, those dual-voltage boxes
have eased the suitcase of many businessmen!
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