finga prints

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  • 1000 BCE

    first prints

    the first finger prints are used on official documents

  • Macello

    Macello Malpighi saw that fingerprints had common patterns

  • Johannes

    Johannes Purkinje documented nine specific patterns to help identify types of fingerprints

  • William

    William Herschel used fingerprinting as a way to sign a contract. He noticed that no two fingerprints are the same

  • Faulds

    Dr. Henry Faulds used fingerprinting to identify who had left a bottle lying out.

  • First Crime

    Using a bloody fingerprint left on a doorframe, police in Argentina were able to identify a murderer.

  • Police Records

    Paris police began keeping fingerprints of criminals on file.

  • FBI

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation took over the cataloguing of fingerprints in America. By 1971 they had over 200 million fingerprints on file.

  • Children

    Law enforcement fingerprints children for safety.

  • FBI moves to electronic fingerprinting

    FBI began transfers their fingerprints to an electronic system.