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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