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People who belonged to the Indus valley extensively used fingerprints which were embossed on clay tablets or seals -
Nehemiah grew was the first European to publish friction ridge skin observations -
In the early 12th century, a Chinese author wrote a series of crime novels entitled "The story of the Riverbank". These novels talked about how there many methods for fingerprints when investigating a crime -
According to the Chinese records in the Qin dynasty, they included details about using handprints as evidence for burglary -
He published a report of experiments showing methods of taking fingerprints. He suggested that skin ridge patterns are important for the identification of criminals. He was convinced that fingerprints furnished infallible proof of identity. He was the first person to suggest the most valuable idea of identifying criminals from fingerprints found at a crime scene. -
In this book, he described anatomy of fingerprints and offered practical methods of recording them. -
Sir Henry Richard published a textbook on ‘classification and uses of fingerprints. He also modified the fingerprint patterns into four groups. They were arches, loops, whorls and composites. -
He devised the single fingerprint system of registration which was a very simple method. A special magnifying glass was employed in the technique for classifying each fingerprint.