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1792 BCE
Clay Tablet
Archaeologists discovered that fingerprints can be pressed onto clay tablets in Babylon. -
Friction ridge skin
These observations were published in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London" and "Anatomy of the Human Body" -
Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer
Mayor described that "the arrangement of skin ridges is never duplicated in two persons", meaning that not one fingerprint is the same as the other -
Alphose Bertillion
This person created a way to identify criminals, this was called Bertillionage. -
Bertillonage used
Bertillonage was first used in 1883 to identify a repeating offender -
Galton
Francis Galton began his own observations of fingerprints, found that this is an use of identification. -
1st identification
For a criminal case, Eduardo Alvarez made identification of a crime with just a fingerprint. He found a woman who killed her two sons then herself afterwards. -
US Army
The United States army started utilizing fingerprints as personal identification. -
International Association for Criminal Identification
Twenty two people came together and created the International Association for Criminal Identification which is known as one of the biggest forensic organizations in the world. -
FBI
This year the FBI had successfully had over 100 million fingerprints processed and kept in criminal files.