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The Frisbee wasn’t invented by a toy company. It came from a baker in the 1870s.
Toss a Frisbee.
Somewhere, right now, at a picnic or on a playing field, someone is pulling out a plate-sized plastic disc to toss around.
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at the Museum of Modern Art, tells us about how the Frisbee came about and how it has endured.
(Originally aired June 11, 2005)