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Walter Frederick Morrison January 23, — February 9, was an American inventor and entrepreneur, who invented the Frisbee. Walter F. Morrison, an optometrist. Morrison stated that the original idea for a flying disc toy came to him in , while throwing a popcorn can lid with his girlfriend, Lucile Eleanor "Lu" Nay — , whom he later married on April 3, , in Los Angeles, California.

The popcorn can lid soon dented which led to the discovery that cake pans flew better and were more common. Morrison detailed, in a interview, "That got the wheels turning, because you could buy a cake pan for five cents, and if people on the beach were willing to pay a quarter for it, well—there was a business.

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He was shot down and was a prisoner of war for 48 days in Germany's Stalag In , Morrison sketched out a design called the Whirlo-Way for the world's first flying disc. In an investor, Warren Franscioni, paid for molding the design in plastic. They named it the Flyin-Saucer. After disappointing sales, Fred and Warren parted ways in early In , Fred bought more of the Saucers from the original molders to sell at local fairs, but soon found he could produce his own disc more cheaply.