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Finger prints were used on clay for business transactions in ancient Babylon
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An ancient Greek physician discovered that when his patients are telling a lie their heart rate increases -
Bartolomeo da Varignana was the first to perform a medicolegal autopsy in the case of a suspected murder
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Missing teeth were used to identify the French Duke of Burgundy body
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The very first microscope was developed in 1590
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Comparison of bullets involves "class" and "individual" characteristics
This was first used in a murder case -
The first advocation of the use of photography for the identification of criminals and the documentation of evidence and crime scenes
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Fingerprints are first used to eliminate an innocent suspect and indicate a perpetrator in a Tokyo burglary
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The NY States Prison system begins the first systematic use of fingerprints in the US for criminal identification
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The first FBI crime lab is created
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Dental records are used to identify a corpse
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The Breathalyzer Test was invented by R. F. Borkenstein for field sobriety testing
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Gilroy and Harrison introduce a qualitative colorimetric chemical test to detect the presence of barium, antimony, and lead on the hands of individuals who fired a firearm
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The beginnings of the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) is introduced by the FBI with first computerized scans of fingerprints
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American geneticists discover a region of DNA that does not hold any genetic information and is extremely variable between individuals
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DNA is used for the first time to solve a crime
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DNA profiling is used for the first time in a US criminal court
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FBI helps develop Drugfire
An automated imaging system to compare marks left on cartridge cases and shell casings -
NDIS ,a FBI DNA database, is put into practice
NDIS is "National DNA Index System" -
The Forensic Science Service launches the UK's first online footwear coding and detection management system
