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Who doesn’t love a good metro map/diagram? Surely not our community of Maps in the Wild lovers? This is the Washington Metro Map which was very useful for getting to the National Air and Space Museum which has featured a lot over the last couple of weeks
An incomplete sketch by Harry Beck, the designer of the iconic London Underground map. The hastily drawn sketch focuses on Southwest London as it intends to show a proposed new layout for the District Line branch to Richmond.Much of the map is composed of crude pencil sketches, but the relevant […]
This unique manuscript sketch by Harry Beck, the designer of the iconic London Tube Map, shows an early attempt to add the Victoria Line (still under construction at the time) to his Underground diagram. His elegant and ingenious proposal introduces the Victoria line as a clean diagonal running from northeast […]
We went to see the exhibition of Tube Diagrams featuring some very early sketches by Harry Beck at the Map House in Knightsbridge (very, very pricey). Victoria Line at Kings Cross and Euston Four unique sketches in Harry Beck’s hand showing different ways to depict the area around Kings Cross […]
Using Satellites for SpyingGRAB (Galactic Radiation and Background) Satellite GroundStation Contact Map, 1960 GRAB was the first electronic spy satellite; it picked up radio communications from Cold War adversaries. Ground operators used this map to tell when the satellite was overhead. That’s when they could download intercepted intelligence. This is […]
Picturing Earth from SpaceBefore the Space Age, people could only imagine what Earth looked like. Artists tried their best, and in time, new technologies started to piece together a more accurate picture. High-altitude rockets, satellites, and human space missions gave us increasingly dramatic views.In 1950, Scientific American had to rely […]
Another one from the Air and Space Museum. Using the Moon as a Communications Satellite The U.S. Navy’s Operation Moon Bounce beamed radio signals to the Moon that bounced back to another location on Earth. This system made it easier for the military to send long-distance messages during the Cold […]
Saw these in the Air and Space Museum, can’t quite remember the story behind them but I think it is to do with satellite communications for internet (somebody correct me please). Regardless, this is a massive globe with lights and lines and I thought it was cool.
At the Brooklyn Library they had an area where there was a rotating display of artwork from and about the city, I particularly liked this map of the Brooklyn neighbourhoods. “A Map of Brooklyn: a nostalglarama by Richard Rosenblum”
The Women’s Air Derby was the first official women-only air race in the United States. Humorist Will Rogers referred to it as the Powder Puff Derby, the name by which the race is most commonly known.
