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	Michael Nesmith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Michael Nesmith, born December 30, 1942 in Dallas, Texas, is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman and philanthropist.
		Nesmith won the first Grammy Award (1981) given for Video of the Year for his hour-long Elephant Parts and also had a short-lived series inspired by the video called "Television Parts".
		Since 1990, Nesmith has hosted the Council on Ideas, a gathering of intellectuals from different fields who are asked to brainstorm solutions to world problems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Nesmith (499 words)

	Bette Nesmith Graham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bette Nesmith Graham (23 March 1924 - 12 May 1980) was a typist, commercial artist, the inventor of Liquid Paper, and mother of musician and producer Michael Nesmith.
		She married Warren Nesmith before he left for war, but they divorced in 1946.
		Graham secretly used her white correction paint for five years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bette_Nesmith_Graham (286 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Bette Nesmith Graham, in an effort to cover her typing mistakes, decided to do what painters did when they made mistakes -- she painted over them.
		In 1956, Graham's invention was so popular that she was making batches of "Mistake Out" in her kitchen and garage.
		Graham sold the company four years later to Gillette Corporation for $47.5 million.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/nesmith.html (249 words)

	mistake out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham in 1951 and originally called Mistake Out.
		Graham was a typist who developed a type of white tempera paint to cover up her mistakes.
		Guitar player Michael Nesmith of the band The Monkees is the son of Bette Nesmith Graham.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Mistake_Out.html (184 words)

	Who was the inventor of liquid paper?
		Bette Clair McMurray Graham, born in San Antonio, Texas was an inventor and entrepreneur.
		Bette Graham and the Gihon Foundation established the Bette Clair McMurray Foundation in 1976 in 1978.
		Graham also planned to build a house for the foundations and the art collection at the time of her death.
	tntn.essortment.com /inventorliquid_ridn.htm (868 words)

	Famous Women Inventors: Bette Nesmith Graham - Liquid Paper
		It was at this time that Graham and her colleagues at the bank began experiencing trouble with the new IBM electric typewriters.
		Graham sold her first batch of “Mistake Out” in 1956, and soon she was working full-time to produce and bottle it from her North Dallas home.
		Graham continued experimenting with the makeup of the substance until she achieved the perfect combination of paint and several other chemicals.
	www.women-inventors.com /Bette-Nesmith-Graham.asp (447 words)

	Bette Nesmith Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was originally called "mistake out" and was the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a secretary in Dallas and a single mother raising a son, Michael (The Monkees).
		Bette was an artist and use to handling paints and inks.
		Graham put some tempera waterbase paint, colored to match the stationery she used, in a bottle and took her watercolor brush to the office.
	www.engineering.com /content/ContentDisplay?contentId=41003038 (424 words)

	Liquid Paper Was Invented by a Monkee's Mother
		Liquid Paper was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, whose son Michael Nesmith was a member of the American rock group The Monkees.
		Bette Graham was 17 when she got a job at a Texas bank as a secretary, even though she didn't know how to type.
		One holiday season, Bette Graham was a bank window and, in a flash of brilliance, decided to create a paint to cover up typewriting mistakes.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /funfacts/liquidpaper.htm (325 words)

	graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bette Nesmith Graham was born in Dallas, Texas in 1924.
		The advent of electric typewriters raised problems for Graham: She discovered that errors made using the new type writer ribbons could not be erased.
		An amateur artist, Graham did what artists do when they make mistakes--she invented a white liquid that could be painted over the typewritten error.
	www.csupomona.edu /~plin/inventors/graham.html (170 words)

	Bette Nesmith Graham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bette Nesmith Graham (23 March, 1924 - 12 May 1980) was a typist, commercial artist, and (Someone who is the first to think of or make something) inventor who invented (Click link for more info and facts about Liquid Paper) Liquid Paper.
		She was born as Bette Graham in (Click link for more info and facts about Dallas, Texas) Dallas, Texas.
		She was the mother of musician and producer (Click link for more info and facts about Michael Nesmith) Michael Nesmith.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/be/bette_nesmith_graham.htm (150 words)

	PE Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Graham was an artist at heart, but like some artists, she was not able to support herself and her son in her chosen field.
		Graham, a conscientious and capable employee, was looking for a better way to correct mistakes made on the electric typewriter.
		Her son, Michael Nesmith (who would grow up to be famous in his own right as a member of the hit band, The Monkees) and his friends helped Graham bottle the Mistake Out for sale to customers.
	www.theprintersexchange.com /novarticles/liquidpaper.html (521 words)

	Bette Nesmith Graham, LLS4 - MSAD50 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bette Graham was born on March 23, 1924.
		Bette's son and his friends were filling bottles for her, a lot of bottles in her kitchen.
		Bette is not alive anymore; she died on May 12, 1980.
	www.sad50.k12.me.us /lls/invent/bgraham.html (171 words)

	CBC4Kids: History of Inventions, a timeline from Pottery to Computers.
		Bette Nesmith Graham was a divorced single mother who lived in Dallas Texas.
		Graham found it made a huge mess when she tried to erase her mistakes.
		She described herself as a “feminist who wants freedom for myself and everybody else.” She died on May 12, 1980, and left a huge fortune to be divided between her son and the foundation.
	www.cbc.ca /kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/liquidpaper.html (341 words)

	again! again!: 03/01/2004 - 03/31/2004
		Bette Nesmith Graham was a secretary and a single mother who used her own kitchen blender to mix up her first batch of liquid paper.
		Bette Nesmith Graham was an artist and use to handling paints and inks.
		Bette Nesmith Graham put some tempera waterbased paint, colored to match the stationery she used, in a bottle and took her watercolor brush to the office.
	againagain.blogspot.com /2004_03_01_againagain_archive.html (4678 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Michael Nesmith : Biography
		Born in Houston, TX, Nesmith is the son of Bette Nesmith Graham, the woman who invented Liquid Paper correction fluid.
		Nesmith's mother died in 1980 and left him half of her Liquid Paper fortune (worth over 20 million dollars).
		Nesmith then launched his own record and film production company, Pacific Arts, which became the number one source of American music videos in the '80s, and won the first Video Grammy for it in 1981.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/92268/bio.jhtml (371 words)

	Liquid Paper History - Invention of Liquid Paper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was originally called "mistake out" and was the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a divorcee who went to work in 1951 to support herself and her son.
		Undaunted, Bette Graham changed the name from Mistake Out to Liquid Paper and kept selling it from her kitchen-garage for the next 17 years.
		It was originally called "mistake out" and was the invention of Bette Nesmith Graham, a secretary in Dallas and a single mother raising a son.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story046.htm (713 words)

	Girls Think of Everything... - www.ezboard.com
		Bette filled a small glass bottle with tempera water-based paint and, along with a miniature paintbrush, brought it to work.
		Bette changed the name of her correction fluid from Mistake Out to Liquid Paper and set out to market her invention.
		Bette and her employees then filled tiny green jars by squeezing the paint mixture neatly out of the ketchup bottles.
	p074.ezboard.com /fmonkeelandmikenesmith.showMessage?topicID=794.topic (1378 words)

	Gihon Foundation
		Bette Graham began her business career in 1951 as a secretary at Texas Bank and Trust, doing free-lance artwork on the side to earn extra money.
		It was through her knowledge of pigments, solvents and brushes that she came up with the idea of a fluid to paint out typing mistakes.
		Michael Nesmith, her son, and his friends bottled and sold the product to office supply dealers picked out at random from the phone.
	www.gihon.com /pages/bette_graham/bette_graham_02.html (212 words)

	Mothers of Invention
		They produce the inventors and help rear them, and that should be sufficient.” Quite obviously, the sadly misguided Tuska never heard of Marion Donovan, Ann Moore, Bette Nesmith Graham or the myriad other women who were equally proficient as mothers and as inventors.
		Bette Nesmith Graham – whose son, Michael Nesmith, became famous as a member of The Monkees – created Liquid Paper as a result of job-related difficulties.
		In 1951, while Graham was working as executive secretary for the Chairman of the Board of the Texas Bank and Trust, she and her colleagues began experiencing trouble with the recently developed IBM electric typewriters.
	www.intromark.com /MothersofInvention.asp (1000 words)

	Creative Change Center
		We think of Bette Nesmith Graham who, in 1951, found herself alone and with a young son to support.
		She took a job as a secretary and soon discovered that she was an appallingly bad typist – she had to retype entire pages when she made a slip-up, which was often.
		The annoyance led to action: Bette developed a white tempura paint, which she would dab on over her mistakes to cover the errors.
	c3va.org /philosophy.htm (854 words)

	Inventors and their inventions
		Her invention could clean snow, rain, or sleet from a windshield by using a handle inside the car.
		Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell entered into a famous legal battle over the invention of the telephone, which Bell won.
		She used her own kitchen blender to mix up her first batch of liquid paper, the substance used to cover up mistakes made on paper.
	www.freewebs.com /alclibrary/inventors.html (2090 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Music (Liquid Paperback Writer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother was the inventor of Liquid Paper correction fluid.
		She supplied bottles of the fluid to other secretaries at her workplace (under the name "Mistake Out") for several years; then, in 1956, she improved the formula, changed its name to "Liquid Paper," and set out to trademark the name and patent her product.
		Bette Nesmith Graham died in 1980, leaving half her fortune to her son Michael and half to philanthropic organizations.
	www.snopes2.com /music/artists/nesmith.htm (217 words)

	Encyclopedia: Bette Nesmith Graham
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		Liquid Paper, a brand name of whiteout, white-out, or correction fluid, is used to cover up mistakes on paper without retyping the entire sheet.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Bette-Nesmith-Graham (362 words)

	Bette Nesmith Graham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Problem: In 1951, Bette was working as a secretary using the new IBM electric typewriters.
		When she tried to erase her mistakes with a pencil eraser, her work looked smudged and messy.
		Bette invented "Mistake Out" which later became Liquid Paper and is now known as White Out.
	www.girlsinc.org /gc/inc/BetteNesmithGraham.htm (95 words)

	Web Extra
		While liquid paper is no longer as important with word processing programs allowing instant correction of errors, the idea that at one time papers had to be rewritten or retyped if a mistake occurred until Ms.
		Graham, a secretary who was a bad typist, thought of painting out hers was something everyone could appreciate.
		One month after the birth of Thomas Alva Edison, Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on March 3, 1847.
	www.school-librarians-workshop.com /webextra.html (3428 words)

	ipedia.com: Michael Nesmith Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		His mother, Bette Nesmith Graham, was a typist...
		Nesmith won the first Grammy Award given for video for his hour-long Elephant Parts and also had a short-lived series inspired by the video called "Television Parts".
		He produced the movie Repo Man as well as his own solo recording and film projects.
	www.ipedia.com /michael_nesmith.html (496 words)

	Michael_Nesmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Michael Nesmith, born December 30, 1942 in Dallas, Texas, is an American musician, songwriter, actor, producer, novelist, businessman and philanthropist.
		After a hitch in the Air Force, Nesmith began his recording career with a two singles recorded under the name Michael Blessing, and later one of his songs, "Different Drum," was successfully recorded by Linda Ronstadt and the Stone Poneys.
		He produced the movies Repo Man, Tapeheads, and Timerider, as well as his own solo recording and film projects.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Michael_Nesmith (479 words)

	Women Inventors
		Bette Nesmith Graham invented white-out which was originally called "mistake out".
		Graham put some tempera water based paint, colored to match the stationery she used, in a bottle and took her watercolor brush to the office.
		Ruth Handler invented an American icon that functions as both a steady cynosure for girls' dreams and an ever changing reflection of American society.
	www.students.dsu.edu /kurtzs/Pages/women_inventors_info.htm (1492 words)

	Carla's Memories
		Liquid Paper was actually the brainchild of a quick-thinking woman with poor typing skills.
		Interesting tidbit: Bette was the mother of Michael Nesmith, a member of The Monkees, a popular 1960's singing group.
		I still keep a box of carbon paper in my desk for old time's sake.
	www.angelfire.com /il/Goode2shuz/Memories.html (579 words)

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