¿Qué relación tiene el guitarrista de los Monkees con el Liquid Paper?
Cuando Mike Nesmith tenía 13 años, su madre
(quien se había separado del padre de Mike, cuando éste tenía 4)
se dedicó a varios trabajos de oficina y diseño gráfico para ganarse la vida.
Llegó a convertirse en una secretaria y taquígrafa muy competente.
Fue ella, Bette Nesmith Graham, quien inventó en su cocina,
por allá por 1956 un líquido corrector para las máquinas de escribir,
más tarde conocido comercialmente como Liquid Paper
En los siguientes 25 años llevó a la compañía Liquid Paper Corporation
a convertirse en una exitosa empresa internacional,
que finalmente se vendió Gillette en 1979 en cerca de 48 millones de dólares.
La madre de Nesmith murió algunos meses después de la venta, a los 56 años.
Aquí algunos detalles más:
In 1951, Bette Nesmith Graham invented
the first correction fluid in her kitchen.
Working as a typist, she used to make many mistakes
and always strived for a way to correct them.
she mixed with a common kitchen blender,
she called the outcome fluid Mistake Out
and started to provide her co-workers
with small green bottles on which
the brand's name was displayed.
By 1956, Graham founded
the Mistake Out Company
and continued working
from her kitchen nights and weekends
to produce small batches of correction bottles.
She was fired from her typist job
after she made a mistake
that she did not manage to correct.
She had typed in
her company name
instead of the bank's.
After this stroke of bad luck,
she decided to devote her time
to her new company.
The inventor
offered the product to IBM,
which declined the offer.
She sold the product from her house for 17 years;
the name was changed to Liquid Paper shortly after.
By 1968, the product was profitable,
and in 1979 the Liquid Paper Corporation
was sold to the Gillette Corporation
for $47.5 million with royalties.
In 2000, Liquid Paper
was acquired by Newell Rubbermaid.
In some regions of the world,
Liquid Paper is now endorsed by Papermate,
a widely known writing instruments brand
(also owned by Newell Rubbermaid).
Graham's son Mike Nesmith, guitarist/singer
in the popular 1960s pop band The Monkees,
was the primary heir to her fortune upon her death in 1980.
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