Development of CSI Sciences Timeline

By ATLANTAG1313
  • Time of Death
    1800 BCE

    Time of Death

    Forensic scientists started using body temperature to determine a person's time of death. This practice began in the early 1800's.
  • First Documented Use of Fingerprints
    700 BCE

    First Documented Use of Fingerprints

    In Chinese culture they would use their fingerprints to mark important documents and sculpture. It was the first time fingerprints were documented to be used as identification.
  • First Ballistic Test

    First Ballistic Test

    The first case of a forensic firearm examination happened in 1835, when Henry Goddard applied what he knew about ballistic fingerprinting to link a bullet to an actual culprit.
  • Discovery of DNA

    Discovery of DNA

    Johann Friedrich Miescher, a swiss chemist, discovered the molecule known as DNA in the 1860s.
  • Different Blood Types

    Different Blood Types

    Karl Landsteiner, an Australian doctor who discovered that there are different blood groups, which made making blood transfusions safe.
  • First DNA Testing

    First DNA Testing

    Jeffrey Glassberg first discovered that you could use DNA as a material for identification of an individual.