Pallps

Development of CSI Sciences

By haileyberg
  • 300

    First Forensics

    First Forensics
    Fingerprints are used on clay tablets for business transaction in ancient Babylon.
  • Jan 1, 750

    First Lie Detector

    First Lie Detector
    An ancient Greek physician, Erasistratus, discovers that his patients’ pulse rates increase when they are telling lies.
  • Jan 28, 1235

    Finding Murder Weapons

    Finding Murder Weapons
    A murder was committed using a sickle, which is a type of curved looking knife. All those in the village who owned one 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.
  • Jan 1, 1302

    First Medical Autopsy

    First Medical Autopsy
    Bartolomeo da Varignana performed one of the first medicinal autopsy.
  • 1447

    Identification using Teeth

    Identification using Teeth
    Missing teeth of the French Duke of Burgundy are used to identify his remains.
  • 1509

    First Microscope

  • Physical Matching

    A man of England is convicted of murder because of a torn paper found in a pistol matching a remaining piece in his pocket. One of the first documented uses of physical matching.

  • Bullets

    Bullets
    Henry Goddard of Scotland Yard first uses bullet comparison to catch a murderer.

  • Determining Time of Death

    Determining Time of Death
    Taylor and Wilkes write a paper on the determination of time since death from fall in body temperature, introducing many current concepts we still use!

  • "Mug Shots"

    "Mug Shots"
    The use of photography for the identification of criminals and the documentation of evidence and crime scenes.

  • Beginning of Fingerprints

    Beginning of Fingerprints
    They started using fingerprints for evidence in CSI cases.

  • Using Fingerprints to Determine Crime

    Using Fingerprints to Determine Crime
    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 Tokyo burglary.

  • Portable Polygraph

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

  • Using Dental Records

    Using Dental Records
    Dental records are compared with teeth from corpses.

  • Breathalyzer Test

    Breathalyzer Test
    R. F. Borkenstein invents the Breathalyzer for field sobriety testing.

  • Testing for Shooting

  • Finger Print Scanning System

    Finger Print Scanning System
    The FBI introduces the beginnings of its Automated Fingerprint Idrntification System, with first computerised scans of fingerprints.

  • Starting DNA Recognition

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

  • Using DNA to Catch Criminals

    Using DNA to Catch Criminals
    DNA is used for the first time to solve a crime

  • Footwear Detection

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