Henry Charles
Beck known as Harry
Beck, was an English technical draughtsman 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 skeptical of Beck's radical proposal,
an uncommission 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.
Source: Wikipedia
A subway map is a great example of how excellent design also improves people's lives.
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