Summary of The Tube Map nearly looked very different

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The Tube Map is an iconic London icon, and its design has changed a few times over the years. A new version is released every few months, and previous versions have looked very different. The story behind the Tube Map is that it nearly looked very different, and London's underground railroads could have been more useful if they were all run together as a coordinated system. However, the task of creating a map of the whole network that was both useful and easy to read was a notoriously difficult one.

• 00:00:00 The Tube Map is an iconic London icon, and its design has changed a few times over the years. A new version is released every few months, and previous versions have looked very different. The story behind the Tube Map is that it nearly looked very different, and London's underground railroads could have been more useful if they were all run together as a coordinated system. However, the task of creating a map of the whole network that was both useful and easy to read was a notoriously difficult one. Charles Tyson Yerkes, an ambitious American railway tycoon, came up with the idea of running a network of lines across London where tickets could be used on multiple lines. In 1908, he hired Harry Beck to create a map that looked good and was easy to read. Frank Stingemore was the designer who created the final map, which used the River Thames as a geographical reference and nothing else. Ease of reading was the top priority, and the resulting map was universally loved.
• 00:05:00 Henry Beck was a draftsman who designed a new map for the London Underground that ignored scale, which proved to be more practical than Stingemore's map. However, Beck's design was rejected by Frank Pick because it was "inaccurate." Beck continued to try to convince Pick to use his map, but eventually gave up. Beck's design eventually replaced Stingemore's map in 1933. However, things went sour for Beck when he started to watch TV shows that were not available in his country.
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