The first products from famous household brand names

This Finnish company is probably best known for mobile phones, which dominated the market in the late nineties. The undeniable lure of Snake II and its iconic (and infuriating) ringtones cemented Nokia’s place in electronics history. Although, they’re actually a massive multi-national company with a wide product range that includes respirators, car tires and radios.
These technological innovations do feel a thousand miles away from their original starting point, though. Way back in the 1860’s the company founder, Fredrik Idestam, began the company with a pulp mill that predominantly churned out Nokia branded rolls of toilet paper.