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3300 BCE
Indus valley civilization
People who belonged to the Indus valley extensively used fingerprints which were embossed on clay tablets or seals -
1600 BCE
philosophical transactions of the royal society
Nehemiah grew was the first European to publish friction ridge skin observations -
1200 BCE
Novels
In the early 12th century, a Chinese author wrote a series of crime novels entitled "The story of the Riverbank". These novels talked about how there many methods for fingerprints when investigating a crime -
200 BCE
China
According to the Chinese records in the Qin dynasty, they included details about using handprints as evidence for burglary -
Dr henry Faulds
He published a report of experiments showing methods of taking fingerprints. He suggested that skin ridge patterns are important for the identification of criminals. He was convinced that fingerprints furnished infallible proof of identity. He was the first person to suggest the most valuable idea of identifying criminals from fingerprints found at a crime scene. -
sir francis galton
In this book, he described anatomy of fingerprints and offered practical methods of recording them. -
sir henry richard
Sir Henry Richard published a textbook on ‘classification and uses of fingerprints. He also modified the fingerprint patterns into four groups. They were arches, loops, whorls and composites. -
Harry Battley
He devised the single fingerprint system of registration which was a very simple method. A special magnifying glass was employed in the technique for classifying each fingerprint.