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1750 BCE
Babylon
In Babylon fingerprints were used in business exchanges. -
Dr. Nehemiah Grew
Wrote a paper about the patterns and ridges in the human hand. -
Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
First to declare that no two people have the same fingerprints. -
Jan Evangelist Purkyn
Described nine fingerprint patterns. loops, spirals, circles, and double whorls. -
Sir William Herschel
Discovered that fingerprint don't change with age. -
Alphonse Bertillon
Created a way to identify criminals called Bertillonage. -
Francis Galton
Developed the classification system that is still used today. -
Ivan Vucetich
Noted measurements of fingerprints and started to record all ten fingerprints. -
Sir Edmund Richard Henry
Divided fingerprint records into groups based on the pattern. Created a system that used all 10 fingerprints called ten cards. -
Bertillonage
Bertillon was credited with solving the first case with fingerprints.
