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
Vojko's Plaque Vojko's Plaque Vojko's Plaque () is a local landmark in the Idrijca Gorge in the settlement of Idrijski Log, western Slovenia. This is a plaque that marks the site where the Partisan fighter Janko Premrl (nom de guerre Vojko, 1920–1943) was mortally wounded on 15 February 1943. He died a week later, on 22 February 1943, at Brin Hill () in Idrijski Log. The bronze plaque was unveiled on 16 May 1955 and is registered as cultural heritage. It consists of three overlapping panels. The text of the plaque on the central panel reads "The People's Hero Janko 'Vojko' Premrl