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Jun 04, 1902 Leyton, England, United Kingdom Died on 18 Sep 1974 (aged 72)
British technical draftsman and graphic designer
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About Harry Beck
- Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974) was an English technical draughtsman who created 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.
