Who was the inventor of the Frisbee and when did he dies?”
Fred Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, has died at his home in Utah at the age of 90. Morrison traced the idea for the Frisbee to a Thanksgiving Day family picnic in 1937 when he and his future wife tossed the lid of a popcorn tin back and forth for fun, the Deseret News reports. He took the idea to the beaches of Santa Monica where he sold the “Flying Cake Pan” for 25 cents. Various versions — and various names — came and went over the years, especially after Morrison learned aerodynamics as a bomber pilot in World War II. There was the Whirlo-Way, the Flyin-Saucer and the Pluto Platter until Wham-o signed on with Morrison and registered the name Frisbee. The name comes from the Frisbie Pie Company of Connecticut whose tins were also tossed around by New England college students for fun. They started calling Morrison’s Pluto Platter a “Frisbie,” The Associated Press says. Wham-o took on the name but changed the spelling for legal reasons. Wham-o has a tribune to Morrison with on it
The man who invented the Frisbee, one of the world’s most popular toys, has died at his home in Utah in the United States. Walter Frederick Morrison was 90 and had been suffering from cancer. He conceived and developed his aerodynamic plastic disc in the 1950s, and more than 200 million have been sold worldwide. Frisbee historian Phil Kennedy says Mr Morrison got the idea from playing with a metal cake pan on the beach in California. The platter’s novel aerodynamic shape allowed it to hover briefly or travel long distances, kept aloft by its rotation. Morrison sold the production and manufacturing rights to his “Pluto Platter” in 1957. The name Frisbee was later adopted because that was the nickname given to the platter by college students in New England. The name came from the Frisbie Pie Co, a local bakery whose empty tins were tossed like the soon-to-be Frisbee.
