Csi

2.08 CSI project

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  • 300

    First Forensics

    First Forensics
    Fingerprints are used on clay tablets for business transaction in ancient Babylon.
  • 750

    First Lie Detector

    Erasistratus, an ancient Greek physician, discovers that his patients’ pulse rates increase when they are telling lies. Allegedly the first lie detection test.
  • 1235

    Finding Murder Weapons

    Finding Murder Weapons
    A murder was committed using a sickle. All those in the village who owned a sickle were made to bring them out and lay them in the sun. Eventually flies gathered on one particular sickle, identifying it as the murder weapon.
  • 1302

    First Autopsy

    First Autopsy
    Bartolomeo da Varignana performed one of the first medicolegal autopsies in the case of a suspected murder of a nobleman.

  • First Microscope

    First Microscope
    Hans and Zacharias Janssen invent the first microscope.

  • Physical Matching

    Physical Matching
    John Toms of Lancaster, England is convicted of murder on the basis of a torn wad of paper found in a pistol matching a remaining piece in his pocket. One of the first documented uses of physical matching.

  • Comparing Bullets

    Comparing Bullets
    Henry Goddard of Scotland Yard first uses bullet comparison to catch a murderer. The comparison was based in a visible flaw in the bullet, traced back to a mold.

  • Photographing Evidence

    Photographing Evidence
    First advocation of the use of photography for the identification of criminals and the documentation of evidence and crime scenes.

  • Fingerprint Detection

    Fingerprint Detection
    Henry Faulds of Scotland publishes a paper suggesting fingerprints at the scene of a crime could identify the offender. Faulds uses fingerprints to eliminate an innocent suspect and indicate a perpetrator in a Tokyo burglary.

  • Fingerprints of Criminals

    The NY States Prison system begins the first systematic use of fingerprints in the US for criminal identification.

  • Portable Polygraph

    Portable Polygraph
    John Larson and Leonard Keeler design the portable polygraph.

  • Tape Lifting

    Tape Lifting
    Max Frei-Sulzer develops the tape lift method of collecting trace evidence.

  • Firearm Discharge Testing

    Firearm Discharge Testing
    Harrison and Gilroy introduce a qualitative colorimetric chemical test to detect the presence of barium, antimony and lead on the hands of individuals who fired a firearm.

  • DNA Recognition

    DNA Recognition
    American geneticists discover a region of DNA that does not hold any genetic information and is extremely variable between individuals. Starting our path on dna recognition.

  • DNA is Used to Catch Criminals

    DNA is Used to Catch Criminals
    DNA is used for the first time to solve a crime. DNA profiling is used to identify Colin Pitchfork as the murderer of two young girls in the English Midlands.

  • Footwear Detection

    Footwear Detection
    The Forensic Science Service launches the UK’s first online footwear coding and detection management system, Footwear Intelligence Technology.

  • Forensic Palynology

    Forensic Palynology
    Palynology is the study of pollen, spores, grains, and seeds and can be used in forensics to identify a subject’s location. Pollen and spores are minute and can be deposited on skin and clothes largely undetected.