He brought lightweight packs to millions of students and transformed the way they carried their textbooks to school.

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).

Seattle-based entrepreneur and inventor of the modern backpack, Murray McCory, died last month at the age of 80.

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Over the past couple years there has been an increasing interest in home-grown brands hand-sewing Dyneema fabric backpacks, such as Apocalypse, Illumination Equipment, and Horizon Designs. Siegel, ...

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Though backpack bans are rare, school leaders across the state face a similar imperative to protect students from violence by any means necessary, oftentimes with limited resources at their disposal.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 13-year-old is under investigation after he went to his former elementary school in Kenosha with a black bag and backpack that appears to have been a threat. This is a situation ...