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Here\u2019s a stationery story with a musical twist. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I\u2019ll begin\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n In the far off days before word processors existed, when documents were bashed out on typewriters, making a mistake was a BIG problem.<\/p>\n There was no \u2018delete\u2019 key, so red-faced typists had to use an ink rubber which could damage the paper and jam their typewriter with rubber dust – it wasn\u2019t a great solution.<\/p>\n Then one day, a lady called Bette Nesmith Graham had a brainwave.<\/p>\n Bette had lied about her qualifications in order to get a job as a typist and couldn\u2019t really type very well, so she often had to cover up her mistakes.<\/p>\n One day she was watching an artist painting a sign outside in the street. The artist had made a mistake and was painting over the error.<\/p>\n \u201cAha!\u201d, thought Bette. \u201cThat\u2019s a great idea\u201d.<\/p>\n So she put some water-based tempera white paint in a bottle and took her watercolour paintbrush into the office. She began to paint over her typing mistakes.<\/p>\n Bette sought the help of her son\u2019s chemistry teacher to make improvements to her correction fluid, which was becoming very popular with her colleagues, and then she patented it.<\/p>\n Originally known as \u2018Mistake Out\u2019, the product grew in fame and Bette change its name to \u2018Liquid Paper\u2019. By 1970 the company was massive and Bette became a rich woman, eventually selling the business to the Gillette Corporation for $47,000,000.<\/p>\n She passed her entrepreneurial spirit on to her musician son Michael, who became a pop star as one of the Monkees.<\/p>\n When Bette died, Michael inherited her wealth and invested it in PopClips, a TV show which played pop videos. PopClips developed into the concept of MTV.<\/p>\n So all of the baby boomers who remember Liquid Paper and enjoy music videos are indebted to the brainy Nesmith family!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here\u2019s a stationery story with a musical twist. Are you sitting comfortably? Then I\u2019ll begin\u2026 In the far off days before word processors existed, when documents were bashed out on typewriters, making a mistake was a BIG problem. There was no \u2018delete\u2019 key, so red-faced typists had to use an ink rubber which could damage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,45,21,5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Desktop_Essentials","category-Fun","category-History_of_Office_Supplies","category-Office_Supplies","category-Pens_and_Pencils","tag-featured"],"yoast_head":"\n