Walter Frederick Morrison was the inventor of the frisbee. According to the story, it all started when Morrison and his girlfriend began flinging the lid of a popcorn tin back and forth during one picnic. They soon started experimenting and found out that a tin cake pan flew better.He soon realized that this could make a profit: “That got the wheels turning because you could buy a cake pan for 5 cents, and if people on the beach were willing to pay a quarter for it, well, there was a business.”