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Walter Frederick Morrison, the inventor of the plastic flying discs that eventually became known as the Frisbee, died at his Utah home on Tuesday. He was 90 and is survived by three children.
Walter Frederick Morrison (January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010) [1] was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the Frisbee. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Early life
With his new Frisbee design patent, Ed saw the potential to create something more with the Frisbee. Headrick began a marketing and advertising blitz. With Ed's position at Wham-O, he began not only to heavily market the Frisbee by promoting the trick throws and games you could play, but he shifted the focus of the Frisbee to a sport.
Wham-O Inc. is an American toy company based in Carson, California, United States.It is known for creating and marketing many popular toys for nearly 70 years, including the Hula hoop, Frisbee, Slip 'N Slide, Super Ball, Trac-Ball, Silly String, Hacky sack, Wham-O Bird Ornithopter and Boogie Board, [1] many of which have become genericized trademarks.
Mueller’s Tri-Cities Funeral Home, Kennewick, is in charge of arrangements. Shalon D. Braswell Shalon Diane Braswell, 44, of West Richland, died Feb. 20 in Richland.
Official Frisbee website by Wham-O, manufacturer of Frisbee brand flying discs Obituary in "The Guardian", 7 April 2008 This article about an American inventor is a stub .
When Natalie Kelly lost her brother Nelson Kelly in a Sept. 2021 car crash, the grief of losing her “best friend” was almost too much to bear.After all, the siblings had been “attached at ...
A flying disc with the Wham-O registered trademark "Frisbee". A frisbee (pronounced / ˈ f r ɪ z b iː / FRIZ-bee), also called a flying disc or simply a disc, is a gliding toy or sporting item generally made of injection-molded plastic and roughly 20 to 25 centimetres (8 to 10 in) in diameter with a pronounced lip.