forensics

By tconrad
  • 1750 BCE

    History of fingerprinting

    fingerprints pressed into clay tablets for official documents starting between 1792-1750B.C.
  • 300 BCE

    earliest fingerprints

    chinese historians believing they have found palm prints pressed into clay and wood for important document.

  • western beginings

    a paper being written based on a set of fingerprints dating back to 1684

  • Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

    "the arrangement of skin ridges is never duplicated in two persons"

  • Jan Evangelist Purkyn

    first to describe the nine fingerprint patterns
    including loops, spirals, circles, and double whorls.

  • Sir WIlliam Herschel

    each fingerprint pattern is unique to the individual

  • Alphonse Bertillon

    was the first to identify repeating offenders with fingerprints patterns

  • Galton and Sir E.R. Henry

    developed and identification system for fingerprints

  • Ivan Vucetich

    noted measurements and did overall improvements to the fingerprint identification

  • Sir Francis Galton

    -first person to use fingerprints to solve a murder
    -figured out prints do not change with age