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
His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary, 5 December 2007, Sports Complex His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary, 5 December 2007, Sports Complex His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary, 5 December 2007 Sports Complex () is a multi-use sports facility in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, that was built for the 2007 Southeast Asian Games which coincided with the 80th birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, hence the name of the venue. Completed on 2 July 2007 at a cost of US$65 million, the complex includes tennis courts, swimming pools, an indoor arena "Korat Chatchai Hall" and "Liptapanlop Hall", a velodrome, a gym, a football training pitch complete with floodlights and a small