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The earliest record of the study of patterns on human hands was done by Dr. Nehemiah. He described the patterns he saw under a microscope and the presence of ridges.
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Mayer followed Dr. Nehemiah's work and was most likely the first scientist to realize the arrangement of ridges varied person to person.
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Described nine distinct fingerprint patterns. Some of these patterns included loops, double whorls, spirals, and circles.
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Began collecting fingerprints and noted the unique patterns between people and how they were unaltered by age.
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Bertillon was an assistant clerk at the records office in the Police Station in Paris and developed a way to identify criminals which involved physical measurements
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Galton verified prints do not change with age and with Henry they developed a classification for fingerprints that was added to the Bertillonage system. In the United States and Europe this system is still in use.
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Vucetich improved the fingerprint collection system by noting measurements on identification cards of all arrested persons, adding all 10 print impressions
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With the help of two colleagues, Henry developed a system that divided fingerprint records based on the pattern they have which included arches, whorls, or loops. The ten card included all 10 fingerprints with individual characteristics.
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156 fingerprint examiners were tested with 1 in 5 examiners making at least one false-positive fingerprint identification. This called for a new system to match prints from a crime scene to the ones on file
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The IAFIS was developed by the FBI to provide automated fingerprint searches, latent searches, electronic storage of photo files, and exchange of fingerprints and test results
