The Humble Jigsaw Puzzle
Puzzles, in particular Jigsaw Puzzles, keep your mind active {and they help sharpen your spatial perception and memory}. Jigsaw puzzle number one was built by John Spilsbury around 1760. He was a cartographer and engraver whose first jigsaw was a map of the world. He stuck the map to a piece of wood and then cut out each country.
Afterwards, teachers started using Spilsbury’s puzzles to help students geography lessons by putting the world maps together. By the early turn of the 19th Century, Jigsaws were launched on the masses and became a full blown craze in the US.
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Challenging Jigsaw Puzzles
Years ago, jigsaw Puzzels were harder to try to make and solve. The Jigsaws were made between color lines with no colors to show where the pieces fit. And to make things worse the older Jigsaws didn’t even have a picture on them.
The Origin of the Jigsaw Puzzles
In 1885 jigsaws puzzles were given their name from the treadle saw, but actually they were cut by a fretsaw. Early in the 1900, most jigsaw puzzles were made of wood and cardboard.
Jigsaw Puzzles Craze
The trend for jigsaw puzzles didn’t begin until 1920-30’s when companies in the UK like ” Victory“ and “Chad Valley” and others in the US like “Einson Freeman” began manufacturing a more mainstream range of puzzles. Today there are many online versions of the humble Jigsaw. Jigsaws Puzzels seem to still hold fascination with young and old alike.
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