Inventor: Walter Frederick Morrison
Patent number: D183626
Filing date: Jul 22, 1957
Issue date: Sep 1958

Everybody knows that Marty McFly invented the Frisbee back in 1885 when he threw his Frisbie’s pie tin at Mad Dog Tannen to save Doc Brown during the Hill Valley town celebration. However it wasn’t until the Space Age that Frisbees caught on as a recreational toy. Walter Frederick Morrison (January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010) got the idea 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. In 1957 Morrison sold the rights to the California firm Wham-O, which renamed the disk after discovering East Coast college students were were calling the toy a “Frisbie” after the name of a well-known pie.