This beauty of a diagram is considered to be the first organisational chart ever. The inception of the railways in the mid-19th century must have been a mind-blowing change process…
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Historical Infographics: A National Budget, over 81 Years
81 years of budget data and various categories in three diagrams – the United States Fiscal Chart from the 1870 US census atlas is a real blockbuster in the history of data visualisation…
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The Forgotten Maps of Minard
Charles-Joseph Minard is famous for one particular infographic: His map of the so-called “Russian Campaign“ of Napoleon and his army of 420,000 men. It is little known, however, that this graphic was only one of a series of several dozen infographics created by Minard. They all survive in an archive in Paris
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