Pluto Platter

The first plastic “frisbie,” later named the Pluto Platter, was created in 1948 by a Los Angeles building inspector, Walter Morrison. The Wham-O Company bought rights to the invention in 1957 and changed the name to Frisbee. But some historians claim that Ultimate Frisbee, also known as Ultimate — the touch-football-like sport that created increased demand among adults for the flying disc — may be older than the toy itself. They’ve documented a game played by students at Gambler, Ohio’s Kenyon College as early as 1942, where players, having no Frisbee, tossed an Oven-Ex cake pan instead.