Correction fluid (Liquid Paper)
Corrector líquido (Liquid Paper)
- Date
- 1956 · confidence medium
- Place
- Dallas, Texas, United States
- Credited to
- Bette Nesmith Graham
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
A quick-drying white paint that covers a typing error. A secretary prepared it at home in the 1950s and founded a company on it.
She called it 'Mistake Out' in 1956 and 'Liquid Paper' from 1958; she was also the mother of the musician Michael Nesmith.
What it led to
- correcting typed text without removing the paper
- a multi-million-dollar stationery business
- correction tape and pens