Fingerprints

By drutigliano

  • contracts

    The English first began using fingerprints in July 1858 when Sir William James Herschel, Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly District in Jangipur, India, first used fingerprints on native contracts.
  • First book about fingerprinting

    First book about fingerprinting

    Charles Darwin published the first ever book on fingerprints. This book identifies what fingerprints are and what they do.
  • First fingerprints taken from an inmate

    First fingerprints taken from an inmate

    William West was the first prison inmate to get his photo taken and his fingerprints taken.

  • Us military

    the u.s military adopted the use of fingerprints

  • first fingerprint pad

    the first finger print pad was created.

  • first conviction

    Thomas Jennings was convicted of murder using fingerprints. The prints identified that it was him who committed this crime.

  • fbi

    By 1946, the FBI had processed over 100 million fingerprint cards in manually maintained files; and by 1971, 200 million fingerprint cards.

  • first fingerprint database

    the first fingerprint database was created. This holds everyone who’s ever been fingerprinted fingerprints.

  • sooo many fingerprints

    As of July 2018, the FBI's Next Generation Identification conducts more than 300,000 fingerprint record searches per day against more than 140 million computerized fingerprint records.