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John Spilsbury (/I.P.A. spɪlsbəri/ 1739 – 3 April 1769) [1] was a British cartographer and engraver. He is credited as the inventor of the jigsaw puzzle . Spilsbury created them for educational purposes, and called them "Dissected Maps".
John Spilsbury (1593 – c. 1668) was an English cobbler and Particular Baptist minister who set up a Calvinist Baptist church in London in 1638. Biography.
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's "Europe divided into its kingdoms, etc." (1766).He created the jigsaw puzzle for educational purposes, and called them "Dissected Maps". [2] [3]John Spilsbury is believed to have produced the first jigsaw puzzle around 1760, using a marquetry saw.
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; Klinton Spilsbury (born 1951), American actor; Maria Spilsbury (1776–1820), British artist
John William Edward Spilsbury (born 27 October 1933) is a former English cricketer.A right-arm fast-medium bowler and right-handed batsman, he played only once at first-class level, when he appeared for Worcestershire against the Combined Services at New Road in 1952.
Jigsaw puzzles were invented around 1760, when John Spilsbury, a British engraver and cartographer, mounted a map on a sheet of wood, which he then sawed around the outline of each individual country on the map. He then used the resulting pieces as an aid for the teaching of geography.
Subsequently, Ashby worked for John Spilsbury, writing-engraver, of Russell Court, Drury Lane, to whose business he eventually succeeded, and whose widow he married.Ashby was employed by provincial, colonial, and foreign bankers, to engrave notes and bills.