Bed Nesmith Graham (* 23. March 1924 in Dallas as bed Clair McMurray; "† 12. May 1980) was an US-American Unternehmerin. It invented a liquid to the correction of typing errors, which was marketed under that trademark liquid PAPER ("liquid paper").

At the age of 19 years she married its first married man Warren Nesmith. While its absence brought as a soldier in the Second World War it their son to Michael Nesmith to the world, which became later than member the volume The Monkees famous. After the divorce of its married man it had to through-bring 1946 and their son alone and worked themselves starting from 1951 as a secretary with a bank in Dallas. In this time the again introduced electrical typewriters of problems, because the keystroke was low-friction and the numerously developing typing errors could not be rubbed out, prepared to leave without visible traces on the paper. Graham was a hobby painter and had the idea, typing error to whitewash instead. In addition a Tempera-Farbe mixed suitably the paper color, which could be laid on then with a brush on the place which can be corrected and overwritten after drying. At first this in home working manufacture correction fluid, which it Mistake Out call, only of it and unite colleague use. An attempt to sell the idea at IBM failed 1957. Thereupon began Graham, the product to marked out. An announcement in the magazine The Office brought in their the first larger orders for 1958. The company General Electric ordered 300 bottles, what exceeded its monthly production at that time by far. 1962 married it Robert M. Graham, who entered into its company. 1963 increased it their production by tenfold on 5.000 bottles per month. 1968 referred the company its own factory building in Dallas and sold in this year for the first time one million bottles patented of in the meantime and in liquid PAPERs renamed correction fluid. The company expanded further, 1975 500 bottles per minute were produced. In the same year it came to the divorce of its married man, who remained active however further in leading function in the company. In the consequence it came to law cases between it and the executive committee. 1979 were sold those liquid to PAPER corporation for scarcely 48 million dollar at Gillette.

Bed Graham, which belonged to the faith teachings Christian Science, created two donations: the Betty Clair McMurray Foundation 1976 and the Gihon Foundation 1978. It promoted in particular female artists.

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