Walter Frederick Morrison disc more cheaply. In 1955, he and Lu designed the Pluto Platter, the archetype of all modern flying discs. On January 23, 1957, they sold the rights for the Pluto Platter to the Wham-O toy company. Initially Wham-O continued to market the toy solely as the "Pluto Platter", but by June 1957 they also began using the name "Frisbee" after learning that college students in the Northeast were calling the Pluto Platter by that name. Morrison also invented several other products for Wham-O, but none were as successful as the Pluto Platter. Morrison and his wife, Lu Nay Morrison had
Walter Morrison (MP) Walter Morrison (MP) Walter Morrison (21 May 1836 – 18 December 1921) was an English Liberal and Liberal Unionist politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1861 and 1900. He was a major funder and the treasurer of the Palestine Exploration Fund; in later years the fund was dependant on his donations. Morrison was the son of James Morrison and his wife Mary Anne Todd, daughter of Joseph Todd of London. His father was of the firm of Morrison, Dillon, & Co., and was a former MP for Ipswich. He was educated at Eton College