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Finger print patterns studied
Anatomy professor Jan Evangelista Purkinje publishes thesis identifying nine fingerprint patterns -
Fingerprints identify someone
Dr.Henry Faulds matches fingerprints on a bottle to a laboratory worker -
Fingerprints solve crime
Argentinian police solve a murder based on a bloody fingerprint. -
Fingerprint usage grows
More countries begin to use fingerprints like british india -
England begins using fingerprints
Fingerprint Bureau of New Scotland yard created. -
America begins using fingerprints.
The NYPD begins using fingerprint as identification. -
FBI starts fingerprint collection
FBI starts cataloguing fingerprints in America -
Fingerprint society formed
Originally consisting of only U.K experts the national society of fingerprinting is founded. It soons expands to an international organization. -
Fingerprint computerization
Automated fingerprint identification systems allows fingerprints to be stored electronically. -
Interpol database exceeds 150,000 fingerprints
Interpol's international collection of fingerprints grows to 150,000.