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Influential Designers - Harry Beck
- Harry
Beck
- Background
- Education
- Drafting
Engineer
- Area of expertise
- Cartographic
- Best Known For
- Original Tube Map
- Nationality
- British
- Influence
- Modern Tube map is largely based on the
original that he designed
- Style
- His version of 'topological' map eventually
became the standard geographical method of
presenting maps, around the world
- Process
- 1930 - Concept first revealed but
rejected due to the geographical
distances not being represented
- 1931 - Map is trialed through 100
copies spread throughout select
stations
- 1932 - Trial was extremely successful and
the map is fully published and released to
the public