Info on Harry Beck

Harry Beck was an engineering draftsman born on the 4^th of June 1982.

Harry Beck was 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 draughtsman at the London Underground Signals Office. London Underground was originally sceptical of Beck's radical proposal — it was an uncommissioned spare-time project, and it was cautiously introduced to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It immediately became popular, and the Underground has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since

The striking Tube map that is recognised across the globe was the brainchild of Underground electrical draughtsman, Harry Beck, who formed this imaginative yet stunningly simple design back in 1933. Beck based the map on the circuit diagrams he drew for his day job, stripping the sprawling Tube network down to basics.

The result was an instantly clear and comprehensible chart that would become an essential guide to London - and a template for transport maps the world over.