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1684 - Dr. Nehemiah Grew described presence of ridges and notices fingerprint patterns
1823 - Professor Johannes Evengelista Purkinje documented nine patterns of fingerprints
1858 - William Herschel used fingerprints as a way to make natives sign for contracts, noticed no two were the same
1879 - Alphonse Bertillion creates physical registry of fingerprints of prisoners and identifies repeat offenders
1902 - Alphonse Bertillon makes first conviction with fingerprints and solves murder
1888 - Sir Francis Galton verified that fingerprints do not change with age, and develops modern classification system of fingerprints
1896 - Sir Edmund Richard Henry creates system that divided fingerprint records into groups based on pattern and creates the "ten card"
2013 - FBI has 76 Million people digitally fingerprinted in IAFIS
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Fingerprints are first used as official documents in ancient civilizations (Babylon, China, Persia, Nova Scotia)
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