Harry Beck Underground station. Beck's home at 60 Courthouse Road, Finchley was marked with a plaque by the Finchley Society in 2003. Since 2001 Transport for London has also started to credit Beck for the original idea on the modern Tube maps. In March 2006 viewers of BBC2's "The Culture Show" and visitors to London's Design Museum voted Harry Beck's Tube map as their second-favourite British design of the 20th century in the Great British Design Quest. The winner was Concorde. In January 2009 the Royal Mail issued a set of postage stamps celebrating British design classics, among them was the contemporary
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of English published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. Its creation was spurred by the controversy over the perceived permissiveness of the "Webster's Third New International Dictionary". The third edition had more than 350,000 entries and meanings. James Parton, the publisher (and co-owner) of the history magazine" American Heritage", was appalled by the permissiveness of "Webster's Third", published in 1961, and tried to buy the G. and C. Merriam Company so he