History of Nokia

                                 Founder of Nokia

Fredrik Idestam

Leo Mechelin 

1.  Fredrik Idestam was a Finnish mining engineer & businessman, he's known as a founder of Nokia.

• Leopold Henrik Stanislaus Mechelin was a Finnish professor,statesman,senator & liberal reformer.

Early History of Nokia

Nokia's history started in 1865 when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a groundwood pulp mill on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in the town of Tampere,in southwestern Finland in the Russian Empire and started manufacturing paper.In 1868,Idestam built a second mill near the town of Nokia, 15 kilometres west of Tampere by the Nokianvirta river,which had better resources for hydropowerproduction.In 1871, Idestam,with the help of his close friend statesman Leo Mechelin,renamed & transformed his firm into a share company,thereby founding the Nokia Company, the name it is still known today.
           The seeds of the current incarnation of Nokia were planted with the founding of the electronics section of the cable division in 1960 and the production of its first electronic device in 1962: a pulse analyzer designed for use in nuclear power plants.In the 1967 fusion, that section was separated into its own division, and began manufacturing telecommunications equipment. A key CEO and subsequent Chairman of the Board was vuorineuvos Björn "Nalle" Westerlund (1912–2009), who founded the electronics department and let it run at a loss for 15 years.

           In the 1970s,Nokia became more involved in the telecommunications industry by developing the Nokia DX 200, a digital switch for telephone exchanges.The DX 200 became the workhorse of the network equipment division. Its modular and flexible architecture enabled it to be developed into various switching products.

           In 1979, the merger of Nokia and Salora resulted in the establishment of Mobira Oy. Mobira began developing mobile phones for the NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephony) network standard, the first-generation, first fully automatic cellular phone system that went online in 1981.In 1982, Mobira introduced its first car phone, the Mobira Senator for NMT-450 networks.

           Nokia bought Salora Oy in 1984 and now owning 100% of the company, changed the company's telecommunications branch name to Nokia-Mobira Oy. The Mobira Talkman, launched in 1984, was one of the world's first transportable phones. In 1987, Nokia introduced one of the world's first handheld phones, the Mobira Cityman 900 for NMT-900 networks.

Meaning of NOKIA

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Interesting Facts about Nokia

• Nokia first started as a PAPER MILL.
• Nokia's "NOKIA 1100" is world's best selling mobile phone.
• Nokia launched world's first 41 MEGAPIXEL Mobile phone in History(CHECK THIS LINK FOR MORE INFO