Heritage Timelines · Printable Edition
The Adams Time Chart, ready to print
The whole chart, all ten panels, prepared for your printer, a print shop or a banner, with a printing guide
- 12-sheet whole chart
- 96 large-format sheets
- 10 print-shop panels
- 36 x 18 in whole-chart poster
- 21 ft full-length image
- 8-page guide
Sebastian C. Adams' Synchronological Chart is a single illustrated timeline more than 20 feet long, from the Creation to his own day. This edition turns the high-resolution chart of adamschart.org into files made for paper: every panel cut into coded sheets that join edge to edge, poster files for a print shop, the whole chart on one poster, and the full length in one image.
Buy the Printable Edition · $12
Digital files (PDF, ZIP and JPEG), sent by email right after payment. You print them yourself: no printed chart is shipped. The chart itself stays free to explore on adamschart.org.
Five ways to print it
1. The whole chart on 12 sheets
The easiest way: the whole chart on 12 landscape sheets of US Letter or A4, assembled into a 91 x 46 cm (36 x 18 in) chart in about a quarter of an hour, with little ink. Ideal for a family wall or a classroom.
2. Large format at home, panel by panel
96 sheets of US Letter (or A4 with "fit to page"), in ten files, one per panel. Each file opens with an assembly plan; the sheets are coded A1, A2, B1… and carry a glue strip that overlaps the next one. All ten panels share one scale: each assembled panel is 61 cm (24 in) tall, and the whole chart is about 5.8 m (19 ft) long.
3. At a print shop, panel by panel
One poster file per panel at 200 dpi, about 24 x 27 in: close to the 27-inch height of the printed fold-out chart. Ready for a copy shop's wide-format printer (panel 10, the longest, comes in two parts). Ask for a matte poster print at 100 %.
4. The whole chart on one poster
All ten panels on a single 36 x 18 in poster, in two rows of five with the dates of each panel: the whole stream of time at a glance, for a study wall or a classroom.
5. Full length, as a banner
The whole chart in one continuous image of 50,195 x 5,347 pixels: about 21 ft long and 27 in tall at 200 dpi, or half that size at 400 dpi, for a banner or roll printer.
Look inside
Real pages and files from the edition. Tap a picture to enlarge it.
The whole-chart poster, 36 x 18 in
The whole chart on 12 sheets: the assembly plan
Home kit: the assembly plan of panel 4
Home kit: sheet B2 of panel 4, with its glue strips
Guide: printing at home and assembling a panel
Guide: how to read the chart, from Colby's Key
Guide: the ten panels at a glance
What makes it different
- One scale for all ten panels, so the printed panels join into one continuous chart
- Sheets coded by row and column, with overlapping glue strips and trim marks
- Files sized for a print shop, so you can order large prints without preparing anything
- The whole chart on one poster, with the dates of every panel
- A guide to printing, assembling and displaying the chart, and to reading it with the six rules of Colby's Key
Print and use
Print the files as often as you need, at home or at a print shop, for yourself, your household, your class or your church group, and display the chart wherever you teach or study. Please do not share the files or sell prints made from them.
Want to understand every detail? Each panel also has its own illustrated book in the Study Edition, and the complete edition includes this Printable Edition.
Questions
Is this the printed Adams chart?
No. These are digital files that you print yourself, at home or at a print shop. Nothing is shipped.
Is the Adams Time Chart free online?
Yes. The whole chart is free to explore on adamschart.org, in high resolution, with nothing to download. The Printable Edition is for those who want the chart on paper, at a large size.
Which edition of the chart is it?
The chart shown on adamschart.org: the third edition, revised to 1878, with additions to 1881, reproduced as Adams printed it, with its original engravings. It is in the public domain.
Which way of printing should I choose?
For the whole chart on a wall with the least effort, the 12 sheets. To study one period in detail, print that panel in large format at home (9 sheets). For the full experience, have the panels or the full-length image printed at a print shop.
How do I receive the files?
Right after payment, your download links appear on screen and are sent to your email address. The largest files (the print-shop panels and the full-length image) are about 80 to 105 MB each.
A question?
Write to [email protected].