Harry Beck, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harry Beck

British technical draftsman and graphic designer

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1902

Place of Birth: Leyton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 18-Sep-1974

Profession: graphic designer, cartographer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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.