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
Pluto (mythology) the "Library" of "Apollodorus" (1st century BC) and the Latin "Fables" of Hyginus ("ca." 64 BC–AD 17). The most influential version of the abduction myth is that of Ovid (d. 17 or 18 AD), who tells the story in both the "Metamorphoses" (Book 5) and the "Fasti" (Book 4). Another major retelling, also in Latin, is the long unfinished poem "De raptu Proserpinae" ("On the Abduction of Proserpina") by Claudian (d. 404 AD). Ovid uses the name "Dis", not "Pluto" in these two passages, and Claudian uses "Pluto" only once; translators and editors, however, sometimes supply the more familiar "Pluto"