Brands such as Coca-Cola, Kleenex and play-doh are now household names - but they were originally meant to be very different things.
The first prototype of several products was intended to be something very different from it's everyday use now.
Innovation funding specialists MPA Group have revealed some of our most well known brands were first used for vastly different things.
Here's just some of the things that were invented by accident and are now worth millions.
1. Coca-Cola
Almost a third of people think Coca-Cola was originally used as an opium-free medicine.
In fact, Coca-Cola’s creation came about when its inventor John Pemberton, a chemist who served and was injured in the Civil War, looked for an alternative to morphine to relieve his pain.
And 8% of Brits thought fizzy drinks were first used as a teeth whitener.
2. Kleenex
The original use for household brand Kleenex was also a source of confusion for the public.
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Less than a quarter of people knew that the tissue was originally used as a filter for gas masks, before it was used as an alternative to a handkerchief.
3. Bubble Wrap
The original use of Bubble Wrap also baffled many Brits, with just one in seven correctly identifying that its first iteration was actually a wall covering.
The two original inventors, engineers Alfred W. Fielding and Marc Chavannes, were aiming to invent a new wallpaper by laminating two plastic sheets with air bubbles, before realising the product would better serve as a packing material.
4. 7 Up
Just one in ten people knew that 7 Up, the popular lemon and lime drink, first existed as ‘Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda’, which included lithium, a drug used to even out mood swings.
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Interestingly, 9% of respondents thought 7 Up’s original use was as wallpaper remover.
5.Cornflakes
Cornflakes was originally created as a breakfast food to reduce dyspepsia (indigestion).
But a quarter of people believe it was created as an alternative to chicken feed.
And 20% mistakenly thought it was invented as a healthy alternative for crisps.
6. Play-doh
Play-doh is now a popular children's toy, but it was originally used as a wallpaper cleaner.
In the 1930's Noah McVicker created a putty like substance and his family soap company marketed the creation as wallpaper cleaner.
McVicker's putty was an excellent cleaner, because it didnt contain chemicals, could be reused and didn't stain, but it wasn't long before teachers learned that the product could be used as a modelling compound to make art and craft projects at school.
7. Frisbees
The Frisbee was originally invented in Connecticut - where William Frisbie opened the Frisbie Pie Company in 1871.
Students from nearby universities would throw the empty pie tins to each other, yelling "Frisbie!" as they let go.
It wasn't until 1948, Walter Frederick Morrison and his partner Warren Franscioni invented a plastic version of the disc called the "Flying Saucer" that could fly further and more accurately than the tin pie plates.
Jo Rouse, Technical Analyst at MPA Group, said: “From Play-doh’s original use as a wallpaper cleaner to the medicinal history of our favourite fizzy drinks, it is certainly interesting to see how some of our most used everyday products have been transformed from their initial prototypes to the products they have become today.
“Our research shows how important it is to invest time in research and development, and to continue to adapt products, even if the original product doesn’t hit the mark."
