Chapter 6 timeline

  • Dr Nehemiah grew

    Dr Nehemiah grew
    He wrote on forms and uses of pores of skin of hands and feet.
  • marcello malphigi

    marcello malphigi
    He mentioned about loops and spiral patterns of the fingerprints. He didn't state fingerprints as an individual identification.
  • Thomas Bewick

    Thomas Bewick
    He engraved his fingerprints and used them to ornament three of his books. He was one of the first to recognize the individuality of a finger mark.
  • Evangelist Purkinje

    Evangelist Purkinje
    He named nine types of fingerprints. They are called the transverse curves, the central longitudinal stripe, the oblique strives, the oblique loop, the almond whorl, the spiral whorl, the ellipse, the circle, the double whorl.
  • Sir William Herschel

    Sir William Herschel
    he began fingerprinting the natives with whom he had official transactions. He demanded an imprint of signers hand instead of signature to avoid any future repeated trickery.
  • Henry Faulds

    Henry Faulds
    He was the first person to suggest the most valuable idea of identifying criminals from fingerprints found at crime scene, which plays in important role in the modern methods of scientific criminal investigations. He also wrote a textbook on fingerprint procedure.
  • sir francis galton

    sir francis galton
    Published a book on fingerprints in 1892. In this book, he described anatomy of fingerprints and offered practical methods of recording them.
  • Sir Edward Richard Henry

    Sir Edward Richard Henry
    The first classification system of fingerprints use In India was proposed by him and he published a textbook on ''classification and uses of fingerprints'
  • Dr Juan Vuetich

    Dr Juan Vuetich
    He maintained a file of fingerprint records, which was then the largest of its kind in the world.
  • Harry Battley

    Harry Battley
    He devised the single fingerprint system of registration which was very simple method, and a special magnifying glass was employed in the technique for classifying each fingerprint.