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Fingerprints pressed in clay in Babylon.
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Ancient Chinese used inked fingerprints on all official documents.
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In the west, Dr. Nehemiah wrote about the patterns of human hands under a microscope.
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Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer had concluded that no two fingerprints are the same.
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Jan Evangelist Purkyn describes nine patterns of fingerprints including swirls and circles.
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Sir William Herschel began collecting fingerprints
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Alphonse Bertillon created a way to identify criminals with fingerprinting while working at a police station in Paris.
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Galton and E.R. Henry developed a classification system still used in the U.S. today.
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Ivan Vucetich began to note the measurements of fingerprints on all arrested people. He also added 10 fingerprint impressions.
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Alphonse Bertillon was credited with solving the first murder with fingerprinting