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Anatomy professor Jan Evangelista Purkinje publishes thesis identifying nine fingerprint patterns -
Dr.Henry Faulds matches fingerprints on a bottle to a laboratory worker -
Argentinian police solve a murder based on a bloody fingerprint. -
More countries begin to use fingerprints like british india -
Fingerprint Bureau of New Scotland yard created. -
The NYPD begins using fingerprint as identification. -
FBI starts cataloguing fingerprints in America -
Originally consisting of only U.K experts the national society of fingerprinting is founded. It soons expands to an international organization. -
Automated fingerprint identification systems allows fingerprints to be stored electronically. -
Interpol's international collection of fingerprints grows to 150,000.