Harry Beck Harry Beck Henry Charles Beck (4 June 1902 – 18 September 1974), 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 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. Prior to the
The March (2013 film) participant in the March; as well as those who witnessed the march on TV and were influenced by it, including Oprah Winfrey. The film had its U.S. premiere on 23 August 2013 on PBS and its UK premiere on BBC Two on 28 August 2013, the 50th anniversary of the original event. It was broadcast in France on 11 October 2013 on France 3. On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 86 out of 100, based on six reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". In the U.S. the "San Francisco Chronicle" wrote that ""The March" is not only a timely