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Zacharias Janssen builds the compound microscope
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Period: to
Forensic History from start till today
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Poeple learn of the importance of fingerprints
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William Herschel notices that each fingerprint has a different mark and that fingerprints stay the same throughout their lives
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Alphonse Bertillon realises that photos can help solve crime
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Francis Galton makes the 3 main fingerprint catagories
: loops, whorls, or arches -
Karl Landsteiner learns that not everyone has the same blood
Main types are: A, B, AB and O -
Scotland Yard starts using the Galton-Henry system
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Karl devised the "ABO" test for bloodstains
This is used for cutting down a list of suspects -
Edmund Locard sets up the first forensic science laboratory
He also developed the theory that "Every criminal takes something away and leaves something behind at a crime scene" -
Dr John Larson Creates the lie detector or polygraph machine
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Fishers donate shark to aquariam
Shark vommits up an arm which was traced back to James Smith -
Alec Jeffreys discovered that our bodies are made up of cells
In the center of a cell are strands of information called DNA -
The "fox" a.k.a Malcolm Fairley is arrested
Forensic investigators found a series of clues leading to the mans arrest