What if you could beguile the entire history of register human existence into one epical infographic for the long time ? gaga , proper ? Back in the 1930s , a man name John B. Sparks taste — andThe Vaultrecently dig up his attempt . It ’s called the Histomap , and it’sstill incredible nearly 100 years later , if just more or less out of date .
Initially print by Rand McNally in 1931 , the Histomap pick out the frame of a five - foot - long placard turn up down into a relatively normal - sized gasbag and sold for a dollar , or $ 12.40 in today ’s money . The Vaultdug upan image of the envelope , and the slant written on the exterior reasonably much speaks for itself .
Clear , vivid and sheared of elaboration HISTOMAP holds you ravish as you follow the curvature of power down time ’s eternal course … .. HERE IS THE ACTUAL PICTURE OF THE MARCH OF CIVILIZATION from the clay huts of the ancient to the monarchistic of the center ages to the go panorama of sprightliness in daily America .
Sounds thrilling , right ?
The clearly labeled vertical axis shows the steady marchland of clock time , but the horizontal bloc ’ show of power is less cut and dried . And while we ’re at it , the very 1930 ’s delineation of different racial and cultural chemical group comes off as a little … dated .
But caveats away , the careful visualization of 4,000 years of human story is still beshrew impressive to lay eyes on . Maybe even moreso because it pull off to get a shot of the thirties as well .
So who ’s work on this year ’s version ? [ The Vault ]
you’re able to line up a freakin ’ massive , fully - zoomable image of the Histomaphere .
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