 Flip charts have being in use from the 1900s, the earliest recorded use of a flip chart is a photo from 1912 of John Henry Patterson (1844-1922), NCR’s CEO while addressing the 100 Point Club standing next to a pair of flip charts on casters.that they were the first company to put the large pieces of paper over whiteboards, rather than over other materials.Recently, scientists have developed a digital self writing flip chart which writes word for word everything it is instructed to record.