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
Morrison (surname) IV state visit to Scotland in 1822 Sir Walter Scott encouraged Scottish clans and families to once again wear tartan, and along with this fervour of Scottish romanticism came the invention of many myths to add glamour to family origins. Two prominent falsehoods have become popular to Morrison clan followers. One relates to the Gaelic translation of Morrison and the other concerns Viking origins. Firstly, the commonly quoted proposition that the Gaelic spelling of Morrison is a translation of MacGilliemhuire is “baseless”. Black makes the observation that “Equally baseless is the modern idea that “Morison” interpreted as “Mary’s son,” represents