Anyone into #cartography, #transit, #design or #rail #transport #history should check this out. One of the foremost #schematic concepts to influence todays #map & #diagram designers. (Reposting this a bit late from Joe Brown’s excellent BlueSky thread - also worth adding if you have not already).
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Joe Brown
#OnThisDay 93 years ago, the first of Harry Beck's revolutionary and iconic pocket Tube diagrams were handed out at Baker Street. Rejected at first, a limited trial run of 500 were distributed in 1932 before full adoption in 1933. @ltmuseum collection https://buff.ly/3Pygr64
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It was a great episode of “Map Men”!