Harry Beck
Graphic Designer, Deceased Person
1902 – 1974
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Who was Harry Beck?
Henry Charles Beck, known as Harry Beck, was an English technical draftsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. Beck drew up the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office. London Underground was initially sceptical of Beck's radical proposal, an uncommissioned spare-time project, but tentatively introduced it to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It was immediately popular, and the Underground has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since.
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- Born
- Jun 4, 1902
London - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Died
- Sep 18, 1974
Southampton
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on July 23, 2013
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