The secretary who turned Liquid Paper into a multimillion-dollar business
Bette Nesmith Graham invented one of the most popular office supplies of the 20th century. Today, she’s largely been forgotten.
By:
Zachary Crockett
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@zzcrockett
April 23, 2021
On a warm Texas night in 1956, Bette Nesmith later known as Bette Nesmith Graham sat in a garage surrounded by buckets of white tempera paint, empty nail polish bottles, and handmade labels.
She didn’t know it then, but she was on the brink of something magical.
The product she would eventually create
Liquid Paper, a white correction fluid used to conceal handwritten or printed typos would become one of the world’s most popular and enduring office supplies.
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Women’s Day 2021: Remembering women inventors © Megha Mishra Women’s Day 2021: Remembering women inventors
Every year on March 8, women are lauded, celebrated, their achievements and accomplishments listed and repeated. Entrepreneurs, astronauts, scientists, chefs, artistes, writers, political leaders and heads of states. All things women are talked of on March 8, the United Nations’ International Women’s Day.
This March 8, let’s remember women who invented interesting things that we use every day, yet do not know much about the inventors. The female inventors. Here are 10 everyday things invented by women.
Ironing board
Inventor: Sarah Boone (1892)
Before African-American Sarah Boone, a seamstress and dressmaker, improved upon the existing not-so-handy ironing table, women either used the dining table or wooden planks to iron garments (in the 9th century, the Vikings used whale bones). Though several individuals held patents for folding ironing tables, Boone’s
Women s Day 2021: Remembering women inventors
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