Happy Earmuff Day! This day celebrates the 15 year-old inventor, Chester Greenwood, and his 1877 patent of the first earmuff. Greenwood invented earmuffs in Farmington, Maine, to keep the 15 year-old’s ears warm while iceskating and working outside. He created them using beaver fur and wire.
When he turned 18, he applied for and was granted a patent to produce earmuffs. He created a manufacturing facility in Farmington, and the world began using earmuffs. The city still has a festival every December to remember Greenwood’s invention and American entrepreneurialism at its… youngest?
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# Map Purpose / Intent
Celebrate National Ear Muff Day, the day that a 15 year-old invented earmuffs out of beaver fur and some wire to go ice skating. He received a patent for his invention in 1877.
He lived in Farmington, Maine. So the goal is to create quaint, 1800s antiquarian vibed map of Farmington, Maine. The base map should be jaundiced yellow, like old school paper with aerial photography from today leaking through lightly.
Point icons should be ornate. There should be a drop down panel listing all of the places. When selected, the map should highlight the point and open information about it in a permanent info window in the lower right of the map (desktop) bottom slide up (mobile).
Give the map a witty title. Use an antique display font. Before the map opens, have a brief splash screen give a four-to-seven sentence history of the ear muff inventor and his invention and the role Farmington, Maine, played in their invention. Then “Visit Farmington” button to remove the splash screen.
Your main design goal is to map the places with antique looking symbols and somehow create an overlay that looks like yellowed paper over a publicly available aerial photo tile set. Give a nice title and create a sources modal that opens when clicked.
Add this image of ear muffs, much smaller, somewhere near the title as eye candy.
The pop up should show the brief description of the location and its importance to vintage Farmington and the development of the earmuff.
That’s it. Source Modal: Data: compiled with Spatial Data Doctor GPT. Map created with Web Mapper GPT. Basemap: {wherever the source was from} Map APIs: {list them}