{"id":7428,"date":"2026-09-30T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:31:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:31:58","slug":"frisbee-was-patented-in-1958-by-walter-fred-morrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7428","title":{"rendered":"Frisbee Was Patented in 1958 by Walter \u201cFred\u201d Morrison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13531\" style=\"width: 294px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13531\" class=\"wp-image-13531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Frisbee-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"Walter &quot;Fred&quot; Morrison and his Pluto Platter\" width=\"284\" height=\"227\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walter &#8220;Fred&#8221; Morrison and his Pluto Platter<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Frisbee was patented in 1958 by Walter \u201cFred\u201d Morrison<\/strong>. He received patent number 183,626 for his \u201cFlying Toy.\u201d For a time he called the toy the Pluto Platter. Older children could experiment with the physics of a Frisbee at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/bring-science-home-frisbee-aerodynamics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frisbee<\/a>. They could create a Frisbee course in the backyard or on the playground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frisbee was patented in 1958 by Walter \u201cFred\u201d Morrison. He received patent number 183,626 for his \u201cFlying Toy.\u201d For a time he called the toy the Pluto Platter. Older children could experiment with the physics of a Frisbee at: Frisbee. They could create a Frisbee course in the backyard or on the playground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4472,1835,1837,1839,5898,1836,1838],"class_list":["post-7428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4472","tag-frisbee","tag-patent-number-183626","tag-pluto-platter","tag-september-30","tag-walter-fred-morrison","tag-flying-toy","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7428"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29753,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions\/29753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}