The invention of which home recreational item is attributed to John Spilsbury in 1760?
John Spilsbury (cartographer) John Spilsbury (cartographer) John Spilsbury (/I.P.A. spɪlsbəri/ 1739 – 3 April 1769) 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”. He was the second of three sons of Thomas Spilsbury; the engraver Jonathan Spilsbury was his elder brother, and the two have sometimes been confused. He served as an apprentice to Thomas Jefferys, the Royal Geographer to King George III. Spilsbury created the first puzzle in 1766 as an educational tool to teach geography. He affixed a world map to wood
John Spilsbury (Baptist minister) John Spilsbury (Baptist minister) John Spilsbury (1593 – c. 1668) was an English cobbler and Particular Baptist minister who set up a Calvinist Baptist church in London in 1638. Spilsbury was a member of a London Separatist church, which he left in 1633. It was around five years later that William Kiffin joined Spilsbury in his new congregation. In 1638, "Mr. Tho. Wilson, Mr. Pen,& H. Pen, & more being convenced that Baptism was not for Infants, but professed Believers joyned wth Mr. Jo. Spilsbury ye Churches favour being desired therein." From Spilsbury's pastoral doctrine, two issues, expansively developed, received