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Fingerprints were used as a signature in places like ancient Babylon, China, Nova Scotia, and Persia -
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 -
A professor named Johannes Evangelista Purkinje realized there are nine specific patterns to help discover a fingerprint. although fingerprints are not quite used yet -
A magistrate in India realized that no two fingerprints are the same and could be used as identification -
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 -
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 -
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. -
The New York police department began using fingerprints as a way to identify people. -
with the advancement in technology programs are using automated fingerprint identification systems -
law enforcement groups started fingerprinting children in case they went missing and could be able to identify them
