"Development of Fingerprint Technology for Identification" and "Cryptography - Turing" Timelines
By cjmoner
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210 BCE
Qin dynasty is recorded using fingerprints for identification
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702
A new domestic law was passed in Japan, requiring the use of an individual’s fingerprint to verify legitimacy.
A new domestic law was passed in Japan, requiring the use of an individual’s fingerprint to verify legitimacy. -
Dr. Nehemiah Grew wrote an article in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London" about the qualities of fingerprints
Dr. Nehemiah Grew was the first European to write a scientific article detailing the qualities of the fingerprint. Though there was no connection made to fingerprints being used to identify an individual. -
J. C. A. Mayer writes how fingerprints seem to be unique in a medical research book.
J. C. A. Mayer, a German physician, was the first to publish a book which made reference to the differences between one individual’s fingerprints to another. The book Anatomical Copper-plates with Appropriate Explanations, noted that patterns are never a duplicate between two individuals, there are patterns and similarities among individuals. Mayer is credited as the first European to officially decern that friction ridges are unique in each person and are not replicated even on that individual. -
Sir William James Herschel utilized fingerprints to prevent wage fraud for the East India Company.
Sir William James Herschel in his early 20’s worked as an ambassador for the East India Company. Seeing how the culture there utilized fingerprints/palmprints he established a system in which workers would clock in and out with handprints. This was to prevent wage fraud. -
Development of the Categories for Fingerprint Classification
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Alan Mathison Turing is born
Turing was born in Maida Vale, London, an affluent suburb west of London. His parents Julius Mathison Turing and Ethel Sara (Stoney) Turing, both came from relatively affluent families that had ties to British government and railroad industries. -
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Academic Career of Alan Turing
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Alan Turing’s close friend/suspected first love interest, Christopher Morcom, dies.
The death of Christopher Morcom was a turning point in Turing’s life tat led him to focus all of his being on his education. Some historians have speculated that Morcom's death was the cause of Turing's adamant atheism and materialism. According to letters between Turing and Morcom’s mother, Turing still entertained concepts as a spirit, independent of the body and surviving death, likely due to the semi religious upbringing of his youth. -
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Turing's Time at Bletchley Park
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Turing creates the world’s first chess playing robot.
After the events of Bletchley Park, Turing continued his research and in 1948, started working with a former colleague from King’s College. Their goal was to create the first computer that could play chess. In 1950, they achieved their goal, although the algorithm ran in the computer could only process about one mover per hour. -
Alan Turing is convicted of “Indecent Acts” due to a homosexual relationship.
Turing’s house was broken into and Turing’s lover at the time knew who the perpetrator was. Upon further investigation, the homosexual relationship was discovered, and Turing and his lover were put on trial for “Indecent Acts” AKA homosexual sex. His sentencing had him put on probation and taking chemical castration drugs to lower his libido, which had a secondary effect of making him go down a path of mental decline. -
Alan Turing dies by suicide.
On 8 June 1954, at his house, Turing's housekeeper found him dead. He had died the previous night, due to cyanide poisoning. When his body was discovered, an apple lay half-eaten beside his bed, it was speculated that this was the means by which Turing had consumed a fatal dose. His suicide came from many speculated reasonings, the main reason due to mental decline from chemical castrations drugs, which he had to take as part of his sentence for “Indecent Acts.” -
The Motorola Atrix 4G was released, with a fully integrated fingerprint lock system in place.
The Motorola Atrix 4G was the first smartphone to release with an optional biometric lock system in the phone. This was done by recording the general pattern and minutiae of the user in its internal storage. This information would be accessed if anyone tried to use the fingerprint unlock feature, and would unlock the phone if there was a positive identification.