Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Jigsaw puzzle
First made
c. 1760
An approximate date (to the decade); it only duels items at least 20 years away.
The first ones were maps glued onto wood and cut up, made to teach geography.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P575: 1760Q181008, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“et helt billede. Belærende puslespil i form af kobberstik , som var klæbet på tynde træplader og derefter savet ud, blev fra 1760'erne fremstillet i England. Faktaboks Etymologi Ordet puslespil: 1. led kommer af”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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