What is Liquid Paper®?
Originally created in the 1950’s, Liquid Paper® is the brand name for a typing correction fluid used extensively when typewriters were the most efficient means of creating professional text documents. Until the advent of the word processor, just about anyone who used a typewriter would keep a small bottle of Liquid Paper® correction fluid on hand. Applied with a small brush that was included with the bottle of fluid, it was possible to cover typing errors, allow a moment for the fluid to dry, then simply type the correct letters or characters into the space. The development of Liquid Paper® solvent came about due to the efforts of Bette Nesmith Graham. Graham was employed with a typing pool and knew first hand how frustrating it could be to type almost a whole page of text and then make an error. While there were some tools used for correction at the time, they tended to leave behind a smudge that was unacceptable in many instances. Her frustration with those tools led her to begin exp
