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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
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.
A flying disc in flight A flying disc being caught. Frisbees were invented in the late 1930s by the American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison.Morrison and his future wife Lucile had fun tossing a popcorn can lid after a Thanksgiving Day dinner in 1937.
The flying disc was developed in 1948 by Walter Morrison. On January 23, 1957, Wham-O bought the rights to the invention and released it later under the trademarked name Frisbee . Although playing catch with discs as a pastime and proto-golf games are documented from the early 1900s, and doubtlessly occurred from time to time before, disc ...
This highly publicized tournament included hula hoops as holes, with published rules, hole lengths, pars, and prizes; an event in which Walter Frederick Morrison, inventor of the Pluto Platter and Frisbee inventor "Steady"' Ed Headrick, was in attendance. [1]
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. Ed Headrick promoted the Frisbee, Frisbee games, and Frisbee sports events and rose to the ranks of Executive Vice President at Wham-O. During this time frame ...
James Justice Foster, 18, and John Walter Morrison, 28, both from Winston-Salem, took multiple cases of Modelo beer from the store with a total value of $232.90, according to warrants obtained by ...
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