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Fingerprints found in ancient artifacts for hieroglyphics in Nova Scotia and business transactions in Babylon.
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Fingerprints were used as evidence for burglaries in the Qin Dynasty.
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The first text written by the Persian doctor, Khajeh Rashiduddin Fazlollah Hamadani, about fingerprint identification.
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Loops, spirals, and ridges were documented in
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This was the first text to include drawn fingerprints and proclaim that friction ridge prints are unique.
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Purkinje published his thesis identifying nine different fingerprint patterns but forgoing the information that they can help identify people.
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Herschel used fingerprints for native contracts not because it was scientifically proven to identify others but just on superstition.
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He discovered making fingerprints with iodine fuming, preserving them, and using them to identify suspects.
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Dr. Henry Faulds saw the potential of printers ink in creating fingerprints and saw the first greasy fingerprint on an alcohol bottle.
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Realized fingerprints and hand prints could help solve crimes.
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Alphonse Bertillon founded the way of measuring body parts based on proportions which is called anthropometry.
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The first case of a fingerprint used on a formal document in America by Gilbert Thompson.
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Mark Twain wrote "Life on the Mississippi" and Pudd'n Head Wilson" with fingerprinting and was also turned into a movie.
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He finally started his long career of fingerprinting.
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Created a classification system based off of Galton and Bertillon.
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Eduardo Alvarez was taught by Vucetich and worked with Galton to find the first criminal by using fingerprints.
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Indian Haque and Bose created this filing system for fingerprints that was named after their teacher.
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Edward Richard Henry managed to replace the Bertillon system with the one named after him.
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Metropolitan Police created a separate branch entirely for fingerprints.
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First systematic use of fingerprints and testing in America.
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New York State Prison System and the Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas use the new fingerprint system.
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This is America's first fingerprint national depository.
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The U.S. Military starts using fingerprints and for the next 25 years, all forms of American law enforcement use them too.
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This is just when the U.S. Navy began using fingerprints.
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The U.S. Marine Corps finally started using fingerprints.
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The first American textbook on fingerprinting was published by Frederick Brayley.
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Twenty two individuals gathered together and held the first meeting for the International Association for Criminal Identification
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Edmond Locard wrote that if twelve points of significance based on Galton's details matched between two prints, that counted as identification.
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Congress established the Identification Division of the FBI which is still growing and is still in use today.
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American fingerprint experts agreed that there is no scientific evidence to support the Twelve Point Rule so it was dropped in that year's textbooks.
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The FBI finally reached a total of one hundred million fingerprint cards held manually in their files.
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Four employees of the Hertfordshire Fingerprint Bureau contacted fingerprint exerts all over Europe and established the FPS.
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The IAI decided to construct a board of IAI members to ceritfy fingerprint experts.
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This declaration states that there need not be a minimum amount of friction ridges in order to be used as evidence.
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Their repository exceeded 150,00 sets of fingerprints from 190 countries at this time.
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America's Department of Homeland Security' U.S. Visit Program contained over one hundred twenty million fingerprints.
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The Unique Identification Authority of India has the largest identification system including fingerprints and iris biometrics.
