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1000 BCE
Fingerprints are used
Fingerprints were used as a signature in places like ancient Babylon, China, Nova Scotia, and Persia -
Fingerprints are becoming more well known
A professor from the University of Bologna, in Italy, named Marcello Malpighi noticed that fingerprints had very common patterns. loops whorls and arches made up most fingerprints -
Documentation of nine specific patterns
A professor named Johannes Evangelista Purkinje realized there are nine specific patterns to help discover a fingerprint. although fingerprints are not quite used yet -
No fingerprint is the same
A magistrate in India realized that no two fingerprints are the same and could be used as identification -
Fingerprints are used to indentify someone
A doctor in Tokyo who was very interested in fingerprinting used fingerprints off a water bottle that was left in the lab and he matched those fingerprints with a worker -
Fingerprints are used to solve a crime
The police used a bloody fingerprint left on the doorframe to identify the murderer. they realized these were very helpful and began to keep fingerprints -
England Jumps on board
The use of fingerprints was slow to catch up on from country to country but after success in Argentina and India, the Scotland Yard Fingerprint Bureau was created. -
America begins using finger prints
The New York police department began using fingerprints as a way to identify people. -
Computerized fingerprints
with the advancement in technology programs are using automated fingerprint identification systems -
Fingerprinting children
law enforcement groups started fingerprinting children in case they went missing and could be able to identify them
