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Fingerprint
Sir Edward Richard HENRY is appointed head of Scotland Yard and forces the adoption of fingerprint identification to replace anthropometry. -
microscopic crystal test
Oskar and Rudolf ADLER develop a presumptive test for blood based on benzidine, a new chemical developed -
Fingerprint - criminal identification
The New York State Prison system begins the first systematic use of fingerprints in United States for criminal identification. -
Geologic Evidence
Georg POPP uses geologic evidence in a criminal case for the first time -
Test for blood
Oskar and Rudolf ADLER develop a presumptive test for blood based on benzidine, a new chemical developed -
test for blood based on benzidine
Oskar and Rudolf ADLER develop a presumptive test for blood based on benzidine, a new chemical developed by Merk. -
FILBERT case
Georg POPP firmly established forensic geology with the Margarethe FILBERT case. -
police crime laboratory
Edmund LOCARD, successor to LACASSAGNE as professor of forensic medicine at the University of Lyons, France, establishes the first police crime laboratory -
Bullet markings
Victor BALTHAZARD, professor of forensic medicine at the Sorbonne, publishes the first article on individualizing bullet markings. -
hyperbola spectrograph.
J.J. THOMSON builds the first mass spectrometer known as the hyperbola spectrograph. -
first to catalog manufacturing
Charles E. WAITE is the first to catalog manufacturing data about weapons. -
first U.S. police crime laboratory.
August VOLLMER, as chief of police in Los Angeles, California, implements the first U.S. police crime laboratory. -
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M, N, and P blood factors
LANDSTEINER and LEVINE first detect the M, N, and P blood factors leading to development of the MNSs and P typing systems. -
Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory
Calvin GODDARD's work on the St. Valentine’s day massacre leads to the founding of the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory on the campus of Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
