- Who
- John Spilsbury
- What
- 1766 first
- Where
- United Kingdom ()
- When
- 1766
The popularizing of interlocking picture puzzles is credited to the British map engraver John Spilsbury. In 1766, he published a map of Europe that had been mounted on wood and cut along national boundaries using a marquetry saw. The aim was to help children to learn geography. It was known as a “dissection”; the first recorded use of the term “jigsaw puzzle” was in 1906, after the invention of the tool of the same name.