In some regions of the world, Liquid Paper is now endorsed by Papermate, a widely known writing instruments brand (also owned by Newell). In 2000, the Liquid Paper product and brand name was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid (now Newell Brands). By 1968, the product – now renamed Liquid Paper – was profitable, and in 1979 the company was sold to the Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million with royalties. Graham offered her correction fluid to IBM, which declined the offer (the company announced its own Correcting Selectric with an integrated lift-off tape in 1973). She subsequently decided to devote all her time to Mistake Out. She was fired from her typist job as executive secretary at Texas Bank and Trust after she accidentally put her own company’s name on a sheet of her employer’s company letterhead.

īy 1958, Graham founded the Mistake Out Company and continued working from her kitchen (and eventually garage) nights and weekends to produce small batches of correction bottles. Starting on a basis of tempera paint she mixed with a common kitchen blender, she called the fluid 'Mistake Out' and started to provide her co-workers with small bottles on which the brand's name was displayed. Working as a typist, she used to make many mistakes and always strove for a way to correct them. In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham (mother of future Monkees guitarist Michael Nesmith) invented the first correction fluid in her kitchen. Mainly used to correct typewriting in the past, correction products now mostly cover handwriting mistakes.

Liquid Paper is an American brand of the Newell Brands company marketed internationally that sells correction fluid, correction pens, and correction tape. Brand of correction fluid Liquid Paper products at The Women's Museum in Dallas, Texas

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