I think we can all agree that inventing the space shuttle or the combustion engine or the pacemaker were amazing feats of genius, but guys like Walter Fredrick Morrison impress me more.
Traveling to the moon, revolutionizing Earth-bound transportation or making the human heart beat regularly are all impressive, but the folks who solved those problem had the benefit of a problem to solve. Walter Fredrick Morrison had a plastic lid from a popcorn container and from that, he created one of the most famous toys there is: the Frisbee.
I'm not unlike anyone else in that from time to time, I'll have an idea for an invention that seems worthy and marketable. Like most everyone else, I wouldn't know where to start. Morrison had the courage to stick his neck out for a simple plastic disc, and I find that amazing.
Morrison died this week at age 90.
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