Which Item was Invented by a Secretary and Later Sold for $47 Million Dollars?
The Liquid Paper Story The answer is Liquid Paper, the correction fluid. A Dallas bank secretary named Bette Nesmith Graham developed it in the 1950s, built it into a company, and sold it to Gillette in 1979 for $47.5 million. The detail most people miss is that her son, Michael Nesmith, became a guitarist and…