Forensics Science Timeline

By JoseHiguita27
  • History of Finger Printing
    1750 BCE

    History of Finger Printing

    fingerprints pressed into clay tablets for official documents starting between 1792-1750b.C.
  • Western Beginnings
    1684 BCE

    Western Beginnings

    Paper being written based on a set of finger prints dating back to 1684
  • Early Finger prints
    300 BCE

    Early Finger prints

    Chinese historians believed they have found palm prints pressed into clay and wood for documents before by humans
  • Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

    Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer

    "the arrangement of skin ridges us never duplicated in two persons."
  • Jan Evangelist Purkyn

    Jan Evangelist Purkyn

    first to describe the nine fingerprint patterns including loops, spirals, circles, and double whorls.
  • Sir William Herschel

    Sir William Herschel

    Each Fingerprint pattern is unique to the individual
  • Alphonse Bertillon

    Alphonse Bertillon

    was the first to identify repeating offenders with fingerprints patterns.
  • Galton and sir E.R. Henry

    Galton and sir E.R. Henry

    developed and identification system for fingerprints
  • Ivan Vuceith

    Ivan Vuceith

    Noted measurements and did overall improvements to the finger identification.
  • Sir Francis galton

    Sir Francis galton

    figured fingerprints do not age and first person to solve a murder looking at one.