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Requires fingerprint and signatures on civil contract
Sir William Herschel (British Administrator in District in India) requires that. -
Producing a formula used to classify individuals
Alphonse Bertillion (French Anthropologist) devised a method or formula that involves taking a person's body parts. This method of classifying and identifying people became known as Bertillion System -
Initiated the fingerprinting of criminals
Juan Vucetich (Argentine Police) used in Rojas Homicide in 1892, in which a woman murdered her two sons and cut her own throat so she could put a blame on another person. -
Published the book on fingerprints
Sir Francis Galton (British Anthropologist and a cousin to Charles Darwin) identifies the individuality and uniqueness of fingerprints -
Develops the first system of classifying fingerprints
Sir Edward Henry (Inspector General of Police in Bengal, India) developed and was first adopted as the official system in England, and eventually spread throughout. -
Adopts the use of fingerprints
US Military adopts the use of fingerprints including police agencies -
The first official fingerprint card was developed
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First palm print identification is made in Nevada
The bloody palm print, found on a letter left at a scene of a stage coach robbery and murder of its driver, was identified to Ben Kuhl. -
Formation of ID Division of FBI
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First computer data base of fingerprints was developed
Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), nearly 700 million individual fingerprints were created.