Liquid Paper
Liquid Paper, a
brand name of
whiteout,
white-out, or correction fluid, is used to cover up mistakes on
paper without retyping the entire sheet. It was very important when material was typed with a
typewriter, but less so since the advent of the
word processor. It was
invented by Bette Nesmith Graham in
1951 and originally called
Mistake Out. Graham was a typist who developed a type of white
tempera paint to cover up her mistakes. She offered the product to
IBM, who declined. She sold the product, renamed Liquid Paper, from her
house for 17
years. By
1968 the product was profitable, and in
1979 it was sold to the Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million and
royalties.
Guitar player Michael Nesmith of the band The Monkees is the son of Bette Nesmith Graham.
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