Improved Means for Instruction in Geography and History.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Apr., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 6th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 5th Mar., 1898
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Instruction in Geography and History.
I, RUDOLPH MAYER, Merchant, of 10, Bayerstrasse, Munich, in the Empire of
Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The
This invention relates to improved means for instruction in geography and also
simultaneously in history if desired which consist either of a picture collecting
album with correspondingly made map or of a picture collecting map.
purpose of the invention is to attract in an easy, convenient and amusing manner
the attention of students and to increase the knowledge of the maps with regard to
the pictures by collecting these pictures. The separate pages of the album are
divided into squares which are provided with running numbers. In the front or
backpart of the album is inserted or fixed a map on which the various points
(towns, mountains, rivers, lakes etc.) are also provided with running numbers, which
correspond to those of the squares of the album. The numbers, signs and names
are conveniently indicated on the map in the colors intended for the designation
of each place whether town, lake, mountain, castle etc. In the same or in other
certain colors may also be given indications as to the number of inhabitants of
each place and other geographical, industrial, agricultural etc., notes. When the
map or album is to serve at the same time for instruction in history, the historical
events are indicated at the various places in the corresponding colors. A number
of pictures corresponding to the numbers of the map or the album accompanying
the album, which pictures are made in the size of the squares of the album by
photo chromatic printing or photography in colors. These pictures, which are
held in a pocket fixed on the inside of the cover of the album, represent those
places, which are numbered on the map. But the pictures do not carry numbers,
but only the names of the pictures.
This means of instruction is used in the following manner.
The pupil searches on the map for the places shown on the pictures, which
search is facilitated, by the printing in colors, so that the searches for the different
places only under the color intended for the corresponding category of representa-
tions (towns, mountains, castles, lakes etc.). When the pupil has then found the
required place on the map, he looks in the album for the number, which it carries,
and fixes the picture in the corresponding square. This can be effected by gumming
or pasting the picture or by sliding it into corresponding slots or folds, which are
arranged either above or below or on both sides or at the corners in the corres-
ponding page of the album.
The pupil is thus obliged to study the map, in order to find the right place, as
the single album squares carry no names. Through this study of the map the
pupil recollects also the position of the point searched for, because successive
numbers indicate always neighbouring places. The repeated insertion of the
pictures, that is to say, the repeated searching and looking in the album forms for
the pupil each time a repetition of the task, whilst the affixing of the pictures
fulfils not only the purpose of the instruction but also that of amusement,

page_text: In a modified form of the before described invention, the album may be com-
pletely dispensed with. Spaces are left on the map and provided with numbers,
their places on the map being next to the places corresponding to the pictures.
The process is the same as in the picture collecting album. The pictures can
either be gummed upon the map or as in the album they can be arranged in
detachable manner. The pupil can thus make an entirely exact picture map, a
still better method of intuitive instruction even than the picture album.
Dated this 9th day of April 1897.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London.
Improved Means for Instruction in Geography and History.
I, RUDOLPH MAYER, Merchant, formerly of 10, Bayerstrasse, but now of
Nymphenburgerstrasse 125-127, Munich, in the Empire of Germany, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
This invention relates to improved means for instruction in geography and also
simultaneously in history, if desired, which consists mainly of a picture collecting
map with which there may also be combined an album having a certain relation to
the map in respect of its numbered spaces and otherwise as hereinafter described.
With the map or the map and album I employ a series of pictures of the places
shown upon the map or of incidents connected with their geography or history.
The purpose of the invention is to attract in an easy, convenient and amusing
manner the attention of students and to increase the knowledge of the maps with
regard to the pictures by collecting or dealing with these pictures.
The annexed drawing shows in Fig. 1 a map provided with spaces for receiving
or means for attaching the pictures in proximity to noteworthy places indicated
on the map, and also illustrates various means for securing the pictures to the
map. Fig. 2 shows the album which may be used in conjunction with such a map.
It will be seen on referring to the map shown in Fig. 1 that near each place of
note thereon, there is a blank space or a space included in an enclosing line or
frame, with some means of attachment whereby a series of pictures may be tem-
porarily attached in proximity to the corresponding notable places to which the
pictures respectively have reference; or in some cases where desired, as for instance
for older or more advanced pupils, the blank or otherwise delineated space may not
occur and there may be means of attachment only in proximity to each notable
place in order that the picture may be attached.
I also preferably number on the map in consecutive order of numbers the notable
places according to some route chosen at random more particularly in order to
embrace all the notable places in some kind of circular tour beginning at the
principal city or other place on the map and traversing the latter until it returns
to the principal city or other starting place in such a manner that the pupil
following the route when using the map and pictures as hereinafter described may
have impressed on his memory thereby the general dispersion and relative position
of such notable places throughout the area of country represented by the map. On
the map in proximity to each notable place there may be printed or written
information concerning the place such as the number of inhabitants and other
geographical, industrial, agricultural, historical, or educational notes,

page_text: The pictures can be fastened either by slots h or by folds i, clasps k, pins / or
other means detachably upon the map, the pupil can thus make up an entirely
exact picture map.
The series of pictures is preferably in the shape of separate cards of conveniently
small size having on them characteristic views of the respective places made by
photo-chromatic printing or photography preferably in colours or views of histori-
cal incidents connected therewith. Each picture bears no number but only the
name of the place to which it relates.
This means of instruction is used in the following manner.
The pupil searches on the map for the places shown on the pictures, which
search is facilitated, by the printing in colours, so that he searches for the different
places only under the colour intended for the corresponding category of representa-
tions (towns, mountains, castles, lakes, etc.).
When the pupil has found the required place on the map he attaches the corres-
sponding picture in the corresponding space or to the corresponding means of
attachment.
When I combine with these constructional map and pictures an album for
collecting or keeping the pictures the separate pages of the album are divided into
squares or oblongs a which are provided with running numbers. In the front or
backpart or any part of the album is inserted or fixed the map on which the various
points (towns, mountains, rivers, lakes, etc.,) with descriptive text are also pro-
vided with running numbers, which correspond to those of the square or oblongs
of the album which have on or below them the same descriptive text.
numbers, signs and names are conveniently indicated on the map in the colours
intended for the designation of each place whether town, lake, mountain, castle etc.,
as before described.
The
The pictures are usually held in a pocket e fixed on the inside of the cover of
the album, and here also represent those places which are numbered on the map,
the pictures carrying no numbers, but only the names of the respective places.
Having selected at random a picture and found by means of the map the number
of the place referred to, the pupil searches in the album for the space bearing a
similar number and attaches the picture. This can be effected by gumming or
pasting the picture or by sliding it into corresponding slots or folds which are
arranged either above or below or on both sides or at the corners in the corres-
ponding page of the album.
The pupil is thus obliged to study the map, in order to find the right place, as
the single album spaces carry no names. Through this study of the map the
pupil recollects also the position of the point searched for, because successive
numbers indicate always neighbouring places. The repeated insertion of the
pictures, that is to say, the repeated searching and looking in the album forms for
the pupil each time a repetition of the task, whilst the affixing of the pictures
fulfils not only the purpose of instruction but also that of amusement.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:-
1. An improved means for instruction in geography or history, or both, con-
sisting of a map having on its surface in proximity to each notable place or feature
a frame or other means of attachment, or both, whereby one of a corresponding
series of pictures may be affixed temporarily in proximity to such places or
features.
2. An improved means for instruction in geography or history, or both, con-
sisting of a map b, of the kind claimed in the first claim hereof, various notable
places of which are provided with consecutive numbers commencing with the
capital or other centre and distributed along a route usually ending again at said
centre and with geographical, industrial, agricultural, historical, or other notes
upon the map itself in proximity to said places, an album having a series of

page_text: numbered spaces provided with the same notes, and a series of pictures c corres-
ponding to the number of spaces in the album and of the map, which pictures are
named only and adapted to be inserted into the spaces of the album which carry
the numbers or indications corresponding to those given in proximity to the
corresponding places on the map.
3. A form of construction of the means for instruction as in Claims 1 or 2
whereby the various points of the map (cities, castles, lakes, mountains, etc.,) are
arranged in various colours in order to facilitate search therefor.
4. Å form of construction of the means described in Claim 2 whereby the spaces a
of the album are provided with slots or folds into which the pictures are put
or slid.
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HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
Agents to Applicant, 18, Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C., London.