The Sebir that created Liquid Paper
Background
Around 1950, an American typist and commercial artist Bette Nesmith Graham was frustrated by her inability to erase mistakes made by her electric typewriter. She began to reflect that artists painted over the mistakes they made on the canvas they were working on
Goal
Improve the ease of correcting mistakes
Problem
Text typed in ink is not easy to remove
Sebir
The ease of correcting mistakes was improved through developing a paper-coloured liquid that could be used to 'paint' over typing mistakes
Typing errors were eliminated because the liquid paint concealed them and they could then be typed over
Historic Impact
In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham started the Mistake Out Company that later became Liquid Paper
Association Comment
Bette Nesmith Graham 'associated' the ability of artists to use paint to conceal their painting mistakes and adapted it to create a paint-on liquid that typists could use to cover over their mistakes