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John Spilsbury was the second of three sons of Thomas Spilsbury; the engraver Jonathan Spilsbury was his elder brother, and the two have sometimes been confused. [4] He served as an apprentice to Thomas Jefferys, the Royal Geographer to King George III. Spilsbury created the first puzzle in 1766 as an educational tool to teach geography.
A jigsaw puzzle (with context, sometimes just jigsaw or just puzzle) is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of often irregularly shaped interlocking and mosaicked pieces. Typically each piece has a portion of a picture, which is completed by solving the puzzle.
Despite several people taking credit for the first jigsaw puzzle, most historians give the credit to English engraver John Spilsbury according to Ceaco, a Massachusetts-based puzzle manufacturer.
After becoming popular among the public, this kind of teaching aid remained the primary use of jigsaw puzzles until about 1820. [7] The largest puzzle (40,320 pieces) is made by a German game company Ravensburger. [8] The smallest puzzle ever made was created at LaserZentrum Hannover. It is only five square millimeters, the size of a sand grain.
Jigsaws are popular throughout Europe, and in the American Great Depression jigsaw puzzles sold at the rate of 10 million per week. [2] The first references to any kind of jigsaw puzzle accessory can be found around 1900 when a "Frame" was first included in Dutch jigsaw puzzle boxes [3] so that a completed puzzle could be permanently saved. The ...
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John Spilsbury may refer to: John Spilsbury (Baptist minister), leader of the Particular Baptists in 17th-century England; John Spilsbury (cartographer), London mapmaker and engraver who invented the jigsaw puzzle; John Spilsbury (cricketer), English cricketer
John Spilsbury (Baptist minister) (1593–c. 1668), English cobbler and Particular Baptist minister; John Spilsbury (cartographer) (1739–1769), British mapmaker and engraver who invented the jigsaw puzzle; John Spilsbury (cricketer) (born 1933), English cricketer; Jonathan Spilsbury (c. 1737 –1812), English engraver