Doodles, Drafts, and Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian

Telescoping shopping cart, 1948
Orla E. Watson, Kansas City, Missouri

Orla E. Watson (1896-1983) devised these plans—carefully witnessed and dated for use in filing a patent—for a telescoping shopping cart that could be fitted into another cart for compact storage. The first carts premiered in 1947 at Floyd's Super Market in Kansas City.