Fingerprinting

By Jade Rogers

  • Providing fingerprints and signatures are required on civil contracts

    Providing fingerprints and signatures are required on civil contracts
    in 1858 a British Administer in District in India by the name of William Herschel starts to require fingerprints and signatures on civil contracts

  • Fingerprints can be developed on paper

    Fingerprints can be developed on paper
    A professor of the name of Paul Jean Coulier published his observations that fingerprints can be developed on paper by using iodine fuming.

  • Fingerprint was used on a document to prevent forgery.

    Fingerprint was used on a document to prevent forgery.
    Gilbert Thomson used his thumbprint on a document to prevent forgery.

  • The first system of classifying fingerprints

    The first system of classifying fingerprints
    Sir Edward Henry creates the first system of classifying fingerprints in Bengal, India. It was the official system in England then spread throughout the world.

  • all ten fingerprint impressions were now measured and noted.

    all ten fingerprint impressions were now measured and noted.
    Ivan Vucetich used the impressions of ten fingerprints measured them and took note of them.

  • First criminal case using fingerprints

    First criminal case using fingerprints
    Inspector Eduardo Alvarez in Buenos Aires, Argentina was the first person to use fingerprinting in a criminal case by finding Francisca Rojas who left a bloody fingerprint after murdering her two sons in 1892.

  • A new system that classified fingerprints was created

    A new system that classified fingerprints was created
    Three men made a new system that classified fingerprints into different groups, the ten card was now used to put the imprints of all ten fingers with other notes on the card as well.

  • New York State Prison began to use fingerprinting for identification.

    New York State Prison began to use fingerprinting for identification.
    The New York state prison system and the Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas began to use fingerprinting for inmates.

  • Fingerprints accepted by U.S supreme courts as a reliable source of identification.

    Fingerprints accepted by U.S supreme courts as a reliable source of identification.
    In 1911 The Illinois Supreme Court now allow fingerprint evidence as a reliable form of identification.

  • First computer based fingerprint identification was created.

    First computer based fingerprint identification was created.
    In 1980 AFIS (Automatic Fingerprint identification System) the first computer data base of fingerprints was created.