The original London Underground map was drawn up almost 90 years ago by Harry Beck, an electrical draughtsman who based his map on the circuit drawings used in his day job, rather than focusing on ...

With just seconds between each stop, it's difficult to imagine that ... tube map was drawn up by Harry Beck. Beck was an electrical draughtsman who based the Underground map on the circuit ...

The London Underground map is a classic design ... and interconnected diagrammatic system much like an electrical circuit board. Beck’s desire to create a “common sense device” relied ...

It marks the most recent update to a map that ... for all future Underground maps (Credit: TfL from the London Transport Museum collection) Like a cross between an electric circuit diagram and ...

Think of the London Underground Map. Other cities show you ... It looks a bit like a Mondrian abstract, or like an electric circuit board. (Circuitry wasn't in fact Beck's inspiration, as is ...

A rare map drawn up in 1933 shows how different the London Underground used to look. An event later this month in Knightsbridge, West London, will see historic maps of London’s tube system ...

London’s Tube ... London Passenger Board, which ran the entire Tube network. This was also the same year that Harry Beck presented the first diagram of the Underground map which would become ...

What designer Mark Noad has done is a little different: his latest tube map is still heavily inspired by Harry Beck's circuit diagram ... to relate the underground system to London at street ...

Forget New York and its Subway and Paris with its Métro, the London Tube network ... The designer of the Underground map was Harry Beck, who based it on an electrical circuit diagram.

First created in 1931, the map moved away from geographical features of the city and was instead based on a circuit diagram. Matt Brosnan, head curator at the London Transport Museum, described it ...

The original London Underground map was drawn up almost 90 years ago by Harry Beck, an electrical draughtsman who based his map on the circuit drawings used in his day job, rather than focusing on ...