Bette Nesmith Graham came up with the idea of using a small bottle of tempera water base paint to correct her typing errors while she was an executive secretary in 1951. She supplied bottles of the fluid to others at her workplace (under the name "Mistake Out") for several years.
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Bette Nesmith Graham came up with the idea of using a small bottle of tempera water base paint to correct her typing errors while she was an executive secretary in 1951. She supplied bottles of the fluid to others at her workplace (under the name "Mistake Out") for several years.
You know that white stuff you paint on paper to cover mistakes? It was originally called "mistake out" and was the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a divorcee who went to work in 1951 to support herself and her son.
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The new machines did make typing easier, but their carbon-film ribbons made it impossible to correct mistakes neatly with a pencil eraser. As a result of this predicament, Graham ended up inventing one of the most widely used office products of the 20th century.
