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The Developments of CSI Sciences Timeline Project

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  • 44

    First Officially Recorded Autopsy

    First Officially Recorded Autopsy
    Roman physician, Antistius, performed an autopsy on the
    deceased body of Julius Caesar.
  • 300

    First Use of Fingerprints

    First Use of Fingerprints
    Fingerprints are used on clay tablets for business
    transaction in ancient Babylon.
  • 750

    First Lie Detector

    First Lie Detector
    Erasistratus, an ancient Greek physician, discovers that
    his patients' pulse rates increase when they are telling
    lies. Allegedly the first lie detection test.
  • 1235

    Learning to Find Murder Weapons

    Learning to Find Murder Weapons
    A murder was committed using a sickle. All those in the
    village who owned one were made to bring them out and
    lay them in the sun. Eventually flies gathered on one
    particular sickle, identifying it as the murder weapon.
  • 1248

    Medicine in Murder

    Medicine in Murder
    The Chinese book His Duan Yu describes how to distinguish
    drowning and strangulation on a corspe. The first
    recorded application of medicine to help solve crimes.
  • 1447

    Using Teeth

    Using Teeth
    The missing teeth of the French Duke of Burgundy are used
    to identify remains.

  • Using Body Temperature to Determine Time of Death (1863)

    Using Body Temperature to Determine Time of Death (1863)
    Taylor and Wikes write a paper on the determination of
    time since death from fall in body temperature,
    introducing many current concepts.

  • Photographing Evidence

    Photographing Evidence
    First advocation of the use of photography for the
    identification of criminals and the documentation of
    evidence and crime scenes.

  • Using Fingerprints to Determine Crime

    Using Fingerprints to Determine Crime
    Henry Faulds of Scotland publishes a paper suggesting
    fingerprints at the scene of a crime could identify the
    offender.

  • Blood Types Identified

    Blood Types Identified
    Karl Landsteiner, an Austrian Doctor, began separating
    the blood groups, allowing for the identification of
    blood possible and making blood transfusions safe.

  • Fingerprinting Criminals

    Fingerprinting Criminals
    The NY States Prison system begins the first
    systematic use of fingerprints in the United States for
    criminal identification.

  • Polygraph

    Polygraph
    John Larson, a medical student at the University of
    California, designed the portable polygraph.

  • Tape Lifting

    Tape Lifting
    Richard Drew invents tape lifting. Tape lifting is
    designed for lifting and preserving fingerprints and
    other physical evidence from multiple surfaces. These
    tapes are used to lift palm and fingerprints.

  • Federal Bureau of Investigation

    Federal Bureau of Investigation
    The FBI started using psychological profiling.

  • DNA Profiling

    DNA Profiling
    Alec Jeffreys had discovered the first technique for DNA
    profiling which have expanded on to have the technology
    we use today.