liquid paper, monkee mom
welcome to a new category here at sixowl: inventions. we’ll start with relatively famous ones and delve into the obscure - who invented it? this week: Liquid Paper (”White Out”)
Liquid Paper was originally named “Mistake Out” and was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, a typist/secretary, in 1951.
(For those of you born after ~1980, Liquid Paper is used to cover up typing mistakes… and typing mistakes are made by a typewriter, an archaic device that produced printed documents by analog means, before computers were invented, or became widespread.)
Bette’s dubiously famous tie-in: she was the mother of Michael Nesmith, a member of the mock group “The Monkees.”
(For those of you born after ~1980, The Monkees were a made-for-TV-show pop group who entertained us with song and hilarious misadventures, before the internet was invented, or became widespread).
Posted on May 12th, 2007 by mike
Filed under: inventions
Perhaps a midwest thing, but I recall a brief time where white out was used as a narcotic. It would be melted on a spoon and sniffed. A practice similar to paint huffing.
If I recall correctly they changed the formula to remove the abusive substance.
Frank