Frisbee who invented

Throwing cake or pie pans wasn't new, but Fred Morrison had the idea to make a plastic version. An investor named Warren Franscioni partnered with Morrison to get the idea off the ground. After years of selling his flying discs at fairs and shows, Fred Morrison made a deal with a toy company, Wham-O Manufacturing, in The founders of Wham-O heard college students use a different name for the discs. The "Frisbie Baking Company" made pies in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and throwing their pie pans had been happening on college campuses for years.

Every pie pan was stamped, "Frisbie's Pies". Another interesting tidbit was that Morrison had just returned to the United States after World War II, where he had been a prisoner in the infamous Stalag His partnership with Franscioni, who was also a war veteran, ended before their product had achieved any real success.

In , the first professional model went on sale. Ed Headrick's Frisbee, with its band of raised ridges called the Rings of Headrick, had stabilized flight as opposed to the wobbly flight of its predecessor the Pluto Platter. Headrick, who invented the Wham-O Superball that sold over twenty million units, held the utility patent for the modern-day Frisbee, a product that has sold over two-hundred million units to date.

Headrick led the advertising program, new products program, served as vice president of research and development, executive vice president, general manager and CEO for Wham-O Incorporated over a ten-year period. Today, the year-old Frisbee is owned by Mattel Toy Manufacturers, one of at least sixty manufacturers of flying discs. Wham-O sold over one hundred million units before selling the toy to Mattel. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.

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