Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory ...

My choice was Jansport, but there were options. Colors, patterns, sizes. I wanted to show up for the new school year with ... making this backpack a backpack. You can wear it slung over one shoulder ...

Every teen and college woman needs a good school backpack that ... of 290,000 parents what backpacks their teens love and then did our research into their most popular answers. While we focused on ...

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

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

Murray McCory, who founded JanSport while a student at UW and whose lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students, died Oct. 7 in Seattle.

Murray McCory, a free-spirited outdoorsman who co-founded the rugged gear and pack company JanSport, designed a widely imitated dome tent, and created a durable but lightweight backpack that ...