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jun 26, 1879 - Bertillon Develops Means of Personal ID (1879)

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In 1879 Bertillon came up with a way to ID people by taking a series of bodily measurments and applying them to different people. This worked until it was replaced by fingerprinting.

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jun 26, 1879
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~ 146 years ago