Forensic Science Throughout the years

By kate2000956
  • First Fingerprints
    200 BCE

    First Fingerprints

    In china used for business documents
  • 1248

    Washing Away of Wrongs

    a book that was written on how to distinguish drowning from strangulation
  • Period: Jan 1, 1248 to 1248

    First accounts of using medicine and entomology in solving crimes

    In China used by Xi Yuan Lu
  • Period: Jan 1, 1302 to 1302

    First Autopsies

    Performed in Italy by Dr. Bartolemo da Varignana
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Study of effects of violent deaths

    mainly studied its effects on internal organs
  • First microscope

    First microscope

    invented by Hans and Zacharias Janseen

  • Treatise

    first treatise on systematic documentation
  • Period: to

    Major Forensic books at the time written

    A Treatise on Forensic Medicine/ The Complete System of Police Medicine

  • Method of detecting arsenious oxide

    Used on corpses to solve murders. Invented by Carl Wilhelm Scheele

  • First conviction using a bullet (sort of)

    John Toms tried and convicted for the murder of Edward Culshaw because the pistol wad found in the body matched a torn peiced newspaper in the murders pocket.

  • Arsenic Poisoning

    Chemistry first used in a case of arsenic poisoning

  • Bullet Analysis

    Henry Boddard first person to use physical analysis to connect a bullet to the murder weapon.
  • Fingerprint Classification

    Fingerprint Classification

    Dr. Henry Faulds Established created the first Fingerprint classification system
  • Photography

    Photography

    Photography began being used for mugshots and crime scenes

  • Fingerprint Bureau

    Juan Vucetich set up the worlds first fingerprint Bureau
  • Blood stains

    Blood stains

    Dr. Eduard Piotrowski first person to study blood stains.
  • Ulenhuth Test

    Ulenhuth Test

    invented by Paul Ulenhuth to distinguish human blood from animal blood.

  • Fingerprinting Criminals

    Joseph A. Faurot introduced the fingerprinting of criminals to the U.S.

  • Laboratory

    first police laboratory created

  • Fingerprinting conviction

    first person was convicted based on fingerprinting connection.