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In Western culture the earliest record of the study of the patterns on human hands comes from 1684.
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In ancient china Finger prints were pressed into clay tablets and placed onto all official documents, such as contracts and loans.
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Sir William Herchel began the collection of fingerprints in 1856
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1879 Alphonse Bertillion an assistant clerk in the records office at the police station in Paris created a way to identify criminals
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First used in 1883 to identify a repeating offender
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Galton along with Sir E R. Henry developed the classification system for fingerprintns that is still in use today in the United States and Europe.
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Ivan Vucetich improved fingerprint collection in 1891. He devised his own fingerprint classification system and invented a better way.
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In Wilsons final address he speaks about how every human from birth to grave carries physical marks that are unable to be changed or hidden, fingerprints.
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In 1896 sir Edmund Richard Henry with the help of two colleagues, created a system that divided fingerprint records into groups based on whether they have an arch wharl or loop pattern.
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Bertillion was credited with solving the first murder using fingerprints.
