Fingerprints

By amandahoffman
  • 200 BCE

    First time using handprint evidence

    First time using handprint evidence
    Handprints were used as evidence during burglary investigations in China. They did this by using clay seals which left impressions.

  • First fingerprints United States

    First fingerprints United States
    the first use of fingerprints in the United States was when Gilbert Thompson used his own thumbprint on a document to solve a crime

  • The creation of Anthropometry

    The creation of Anthropometry
    Alphonse Bertillon devised a system of classification, known as anthropometry or the Bertillon System, using measurements of parts of the body.

  • First systematic use of Fingerprints

    First systematic use of Fingerprints
    First systematic use of fingerprints in the U.S. by the New York Civil Service Commission for testing.

  • Marine Corps first used fingerprints

    Marine Corps first used fingerprints
    U.S. Marine Corps begins using fingerprints which was one year after the US Navy

  • FBI fingerprint process hits 100 million

    FBI fingerprint process hits 100 million
    the FBI had processed 100 million fingerprint cards in manually maintained files; and by 1971, 200 million cards. the files were later split into computerized criminal files and manually maintained civil files

  • First Fingerprint Organization

    First Fingerprint Organization
    four employees of the Hertfordshire Fingerprint Bureau contacted fingerprint experts and started the organization of that country's first professional fingerprint organization, the National Society of Fingerprint Officers

  • worlds first certification program for fingerprints

    worlds first certification program for fingerprints
    In Louisiana in 1977, delegates to the 62nd Annual Conference of the International Association for Identification (IAI) voted to establish the world's first certification program for fingerprint experts.

  • First fingerprint phone technology

    First fingerprint phone technology
    The world's first fingerprint phone was Pantech GI100, which launched back in 2004. The fingerprint scanner on Pantech GI100 is not just for fingerprint recognition; it also has extra features like fingerprint authentication and fingerprint speed dialing

  • First time detecting drugs

    First time detecting drugs
    Now there is a new technology that allows people to detect cocaine use through fingerprints because of Dr. Melanie Bailey who is a fellow of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and her team.