The History of Forensics Science Begins

By vanessa45
  • 600 BCE

    Fingerprinting

    Fingerprinting was soon used to determine the identity of a person. The Arabic merchants that they will take a debtor's fingerprint and attach it to a bill. http://www.softschools.com/
  • Nov 1, 1248

    First book of Forensic Science

    The first book of forensic science was published by the chinese. It was known as the first record of medical knowledge to solve criminal cases.

  • Cases being Reported

    These pathology reports were the first to be published during that time.

  • Physical Evidence

    The evidence was a torn rim that actually was newspaper in a pistol that was matched with the newspaper in his pocket. This lead to the conviction of a murder name John,Toms in England.

  • Poison

    A german chemist name Valentin Ross was the one who developed the method of detecting arsenic in the victim's stomach that advanced the investigation of poison deaths.

  • Blood Makers

    The human blood group was discovered by Karl Landsteiner that was adapted for the use on bloodstains by Dieter Max Richter.

  • Bullet Comparison

    The establishment of popular practice was using the comparison microscope for bullet comparison. https://troopers.ny.gov/

  • Presumptive Test

    The development of chemiluminescent reagent luminol was a presumptive test for blood.

  • Voiceprint Identification

    The study of the voiceprint identification in order to catch the criminal while doing the investigation.

  • National Crime System

    The FBI established the first National Crime Information Center that is a computerized national filing systems looking wanted people, stolen vehicles, weapons, and others.

  • Residue Detection

    Technology that was developed at Aerospace Corporation in the United States use to detect gunshot residue that can link a suspect to a crime scene show how close that suspect was to the gun.

  • The advanced of manual fingerprints

    The first fingerprint reader was installed at the FBI.

  • The first auto fingerprint system used

    The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was the first automatic fingerprint identification system.

  • DNA Technique

    The DNA fingerprinting techniques were developed by Sir Alec Jeffreys.

  • DNA catches criminal

    Tommy Lee Andrews was the one who convicted a series of sexual assaults using the DNA profiling.

  • The footwear detection system

    The Britain's Forensic Science Service evolves the online apparel coding and the detection system. That helps the police to identify apparel marks quickly.