The Origin of Liquid Paper

Mrs. Betty Thomas Smith Graham (Bette Nesmith Graham) works in the secretary. She print She was faced with the problem of the wrong type. She uses a pencil eraser to remove. It works both late and incomplete.

Later, the electric typewriter out. This time she faced heavier than old. You can not use a pencil eraser correcting any longer. Retyped one place It is a solution to this problem by inventing the correction fluid.

In 1956, she discovered how to do a simple solution to remove the ink watercolor white packed into bottles nail polish. Tassel label use nail paint white water onto the paper. This is the wrong word was deleted. Reprinted over discrepancies easy to use, fast and effective solutions. His colleagues saw it. It is highly fluid ink she used some of this was born the wrong reagent label "Liquid Paper (Liquid Paper)".

When demand for plastic labels other words, Mrs. Graham white emulsion paint developed and manufactured home sales. With a mix of white water in a blender. Fill a bottle of nail polish A family industry for over 17 years.


1976, Liquid Paper, it can produce up to 25 million bottles sold worldwide, and later in 1979 she was sold to a company Gillette (Gillette).