Who invented mistake out

She established the Betty Claire McMurray Foundation in and the Gihon Foundation in ; both were dedicated to women and supporting female entrepreneurship and artistic endeavors. At the time of her death, Michael Nesmith had started his own label, combining audio records and cassettes with videos.

BY Tanya Basu. Graham died in , leaving millions. And that is how the music video as we know it might not have existed without Liquid Paper.

As a result, she invented Liquid Paper correction fluid, which became a business that made her millions, as the New York Times details in a recent obituary , part of their "Overlooked" series. Graham was divorced and functioning as a single mother in her early 20s, working a number of side hustles in art and modeling. But she got frustrated making typos on her typewriter that she couldn't fix. Tapping into her artistic background, Graham created her own solution: obscure typos using fast-drying white tempera paint and a watercolor brush.

She covertly sold the correction fluid to other secretaries and, later, to wholesalers. Four years after coming up with Mistake Out, Graham accidentally signed a bank letter with the name of her private company and got fired. Jump to: navigation , search. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it. Categories : Technology stubs Writing tools. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in.

Namespaces Page Talk. Bette took great pride in her typed letters and was distressed by the errors. Typewriter erasers made a letter look messy, and she wondered about alternatives.

She always loved art and painted as a hobby. This gave Bette an idea. Working at night in her kitchen, she created a water-based tempera paint tinted to match the typing paper. She put the liquid into a clean nail polish bottle in order to take it to work with her.

Because she was embarrassed about the mistakes, she waited until the area around her desk was quiet in order to correct the letters. When her boss failed to comment on the covered-up mistakes, she knew she had created a useful product. She began sharing it with a few other secretaries. She continued refining the product, working with a chemistry teacher to perfect the right formula. At the start of the business, she mixed up batches in her kitchen using her blender. She employed her son and his friends to put the liquid into the bottles, trim the small brushes so that they were easier to use on small mistakes, and add labels.