Events
1684 - Dr. Nehemiah Grew
described presence of
ridges and notices
fingerprint patterns1823 - Professor
Johannes Evengelista Purkinje
documented nine patterns of
fingerprints1858 - William Herschel used fingerprints
as a way to make natives
sign for contracts, noticed
no two were the same1879 - Alphonse Bertillion creates
physical registry of fingerprints
of prisoners and identifies
repeat offenders1902 - Alphonse Bertillon
makes first conviction
with fingerprints and
solves murder1888 - Sir Francis Galton verified
that fingerprints do not
change with age, and
develops modern classification
system of fingerprints1896 - 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 IAFISPeriods
Fingerprints are first used
as official documents in
ancient civilizations
(Babylon, China, Persia, Nova Scotia)
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