Inventor of frisbee dies at 90
Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 9:45 pm
The man who invented the Frisbee, one of the world’s most popular toy, has died at his home in Utah aged 90.
Walter Frederick Morrison conceived and developed his aerodynamic plastic disc in the 1950s, and hundreds of millions have been sold worldwide since.
Mr ?Morrison and his future wife, Lu, got the idea of this invention from playing with a metal cake pan on the beach in California. He originally called his toy the Pluto Platter and sold it at local fairs. The platter’s novel aerodynamic shape allowed it to hover briefly or travelsurprisingly long distances, kept aloft by its rotation.
In 1957 Mr Morrison sold the rights to the California firm Wham-O, which discovered that youngsters were calling the toy a “Frisbie” after the name of a well-known pie. The company changed the spelling to avoid trademark infringement and the Frisbee was born.
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