Today in history: The first Frisbee!
Hello Steemians!
Welcome to today's episode of the "Today in History" serial, where I bring you daily historical facts and events of the current date.
On January 23, 1957, the first ever batch of Frisbees came out!
The Frisbee has its origin in 1871. , when William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in Bridgeport.
After eating the pies, the local students would throw the empty tins to each other and yell "Frisbie!".
Totally unrelated to the Frisbie Pie story, Walter Frederick Morrison and Warren Franscioni, invented a plastic disc they called "Flying Saucer" in 1948.
The original design by Franscioni and Morrison
Morrison made an solo improvement on the saucer in 1955. eventually selling it to the Wham-O toy company labeled as "Pluto Platter".
A collection of Whem-O Pluto Platters
In December 1967. the company renamed the toy to the name "Frisbee", accordingly to the pie company, but misspelled the name of it.
The re-branding came with a patent by Ed Headrick who was named father of the Frisbee.
Multiple sports were invented around the Frisbee, Ed Headrick himself invented the so called Disc Golf ,or Frisbee Golf, where the goal is to toss the Frisbee into a metal basket.
Ed playing Disc Golf
In 1968, Joel Silver along with others of his fellow students of Columbia High School in New Jersey, started developing a game called Ultimate Frisbee, today known as just "Ultimate",m a mix between football, soccer and basketball.
an Ultimate playing field
Wham-O was a successful company who knew how to market their products.
The Hula-Hoop, the Super Ball and the Frisbee were just some of the successful products of Wham-O.
They began marketing Frisbee and it's sports heavily, resulting in over 100 million Frisbee's sold by 1977.
In 1994, Wham-O sold the original Frisbee to the Mattel Toy Manufacturers, who has the right of the today today as well.
Over the world there are probably hundreds of producers of different models of the Frisbee, from professional ones to the specialized plastic discs for dogs.
Thank you for reading!
I hope you enjoyed today's episode about the one of the most famous outdoor activity toys ever, the Frisbee!
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.cbsnews.com
https://www.discgolf.com/
http://brandlaw.org
http://3milliondogs.com/
https://atomicscout.files.wordpress.com
https://www.aliexpress.com
http://www.wham-o.com/
http://www.marvinsflyingdisccollection.com
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Nice informative post as usual.
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Thanks!
That's great! it's an honor!
I feel like I had heard of the pie thing before but didn't remember, nice read and great pic of the dog at the end
Thanks! Glad you liked it! :)
I played ultimate when I was in Boy Scouts back in the early 80's. It was one of the most fun games ever. Thanks for making me remember it.
glad it brought some happy memories back :)
Nicle written! as an Ultimate Frisbee and dogfrisbee player I apprecieate you put most of the frisbee sports into this article :). Great job!
Great sport !