Sparks, John B.
John B. Sparks (1886 - December 22, 1949) was a chemical engineer, bacteriologist, and historian. Born in England, at some point in his life Sparks immigrated to the United States. He developed a fascination with culture, history, and the philosophies of other civilizations from a young age, which led him to create a series of three 'histomaps' concerning history, evolution, and religion. At the time of his death, Sparks was a director of Nestle's Milk Products Inc. in New York City. He married Dorothy C. Sparks with whom he had three children, one son and two daughters.
10,000 Million Years: The History of Everything on One Sheet.
The Histomap of Evolution Earth, Life and Mankind for Ten Thousand Million Years.
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This is the 1949 edition of John B. Sparks's infographic triumph, Histomap of Evolution, an audacious attempt to compress Earth's, life's, and humanity's history into a single spectacular infographic. Beginning with the planet's formation billions of years ago, its great streams of color trace the emergence, diversification, and extinction of life through geological time before converging on human civilization and the geopolitical world of the mid-20th century. Part scientific diagram, part historical chronology, and part period worldview, the Histomap is an artifact of an era obsessed with organizing, visualizing, and understanding all of history at a glance. (more details)