Tipp-Ex
Tipp-Ex is the brand name for films and correction fluid for covering of typos when typing on the typewriter. Inventors of this correcting means, Wolfgang Dabisch which it received a patent in 1959 and in Eltville the company Tipp-Ex founded to produce the same products.
Shortly thereafter, Otto Wilhelm Carl the Tipp-Ex distribution founded in Frankfurt am Main GmbH & Co. KG. The product quickly became popular and so was widely spread at home and abroad, that the brand name " Tipp-Ex " established in colloquial usage as a generic name for write error - correction tools.
Tipp-Ex for use with typewriters consisted of leaflets (in the format slightly smaller than cigarette paper and stiffer consistency), which were coated on one side with fine powdery white color. To correct a character, typed incorrectly, positioned to the paper in the position immediately before the origin of the error. Then you put the Tipp-Ex with the color coated side of the paper and typed the wrong character again. The stop is white paint peeled off so that the sign was covered by it. The so- covered body could be described again then.
In 1965, a liquid correction aids under the name " Tipp-Ex " was sold, which served mainly to cover clerical errors when handwritten texts. The sale of the same product under the name "C- fluid " by the same manufacturer could not seriously prevent the public perception of a virtual monopoly in this field.
Was invented the principle of correction fluid by Bette Nesmith Graham. She worked the early 1950s as a secretary at the bank " Texas Bank and Trust " in Dallas. You überpinselte mistyped letters or words with paint, blew and rewrote it. Later, they marketed the product under the name " Liquid Paper ".
Since the organochlorine solvent 1,1,1 -trichloroethane used in the liquid " Tipp-Ex " for some consumers about the health risks caused, and later a water-soluble variant was produced and distributed.
As of 1992, Tipp-Ex correction tapes and forth, as from 1998 also correction pens.
Since 1997, Tipp-Ex is the property of the BIC Group. From the proceeds of the sale founded Otto Wilhelm Carl and his wife Ursula Carls the Carls Foundation.
The brand name is to be globally, according to the manufacturer 's tenth - known German brand name.
Curiosities
An almost comical use found Tipp-Ex paper into bird migration experiments at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. To find out if birds exhibited migratory restlessness, they were placed in the group of Professor Wolfgang Wiltschko in so-called Emlentrichter, which is lined with Tipp-Ex paper and were covered up with a sheet of glass. The birds tried to jump on the smooth walls of the hopper to the top, leaving it scratch marks on the paper. Because the funnel after directions were erected aligned a preferred Wegflugrichtung could to the scratch traces are determined ( the way it actually is and the opposite in the autumn and spring ).