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Piecing together the history of jigsaw puzzles
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The very first jigsaw puzzle
In the 1760s, a London mapmaker John Spilsbury pasted a map onto a thin piece of wood, and cut it up with a scroll saw. England would be one piece, Germany would be another.
He marketed these to very affluent and influential people as a tool to teach their children geography.
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Puzzles: Interlocking pieces
Puzzles started expanding beyond learning, with puzzles showing nursery rhymes, fairytale subjects, ships, and trains.
In the early twentieth century, gaming company Parker Brothers invented interlocking pieces, each one cut by hand.
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The puzzle: A pastime during the Great Depression
During the Great Depression, jigsaw puzzles became highly popular as entertainment and employment.
With so many people without work, they would buy a scroll saw and a jigsaw, make jigsaw puzzles in their kitchen or basement, and sell them to their neighbors, or rent them out.
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Jigsaws began as dissected maps
- John Spilsbury invented puzzles in the 1760s as a way to make geography lessons more fun for schoolchildren.
- They remained part of the classroom until the ...
Jigsaws increase in popularity
- The early maps did not have a paper picture to act as a guide. In 1908, Parker Bros added a print of the complete image to the box.
- Picturing the destination made puzzles more enticing.
- The Great Depression in the 1930s increased sales of jigsaws in the United States to top a million a week.
Solving a jigsaw is rewarding
Completing a jigsaw of an artwork entails getting to know the artist's work intimately, becoming familiar with every element and gradation of colour and tone.
Intriguing jigsaw pieces are vital sources of information to the puzzle. They create data points that guide you to completion.
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They make great astronomers, botanists, geologists and landscape architects.
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Disneyland: The beginning
The story of our all time favourite amusement park started back in 1953 when Walt Disney presented his idea to build the biggest amusement park ever to his previous employee, the illustrator Herb R...
The opening day of the Disneyland
The amusement park opened on 17th of July 1955 and was watched by 90 million of citizens, out of a total of 169 million.
Even if the day went by with quite a few issues, by September the millionth visitor had stepped into the alleys of the park. Nowadays there are 12 parks worldwide, however, the only one that bears the signature of his big creator remains the one in Anaheim.
Walt Disney
While presenting himself as extremely sociable and friendly to the audience, Walt Disney was quite the demanding and irritable boss when it came to his employees.
However, he was both open to the others' ideas, which totally paid off when improving the park, and a supporter of Jewish people, even though at some point individuals took him for an anti-Semite.