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All throughout history, fingerprints were used on official documents. They were used like a signature in places like ancient Babylon, China, Nova Scotia, and Persia.
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In 1590, the first microscope was invented in Middelburg in Netherland.
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Henry Goddard of Scotland Yard first uses bullet comparison to catch a murderer. The comparison was based in a visible flaw in the bullet, traced back to a mold.
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Taylor and Wilkes write a paper on the determination of time since death from fall in body temperature, introducing many current concepts.
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First advocation of the use of photography for the identification of criminals and the documentation of evidence and crime scenes.
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The first murder case in the United States in which fingerprint evidence was used successfully was in Illinois in 1910, when Thomas Jennings was accused of murdering Clarence Hiller after his fingerprints were found at Hiller's house.
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The polygraph was invented in 1921 by John Augustus Larson, a medical student at the University of California, Berkeley and a police officer of the Berkeley Police Department in Berkeley, California.
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Dental records are compared with teeth from corpses.
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R. F. Borkenstein invents the Breathalyzer for field sobriety testing.
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The FBI introduces the beginnings of its Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) with first computerized scans of fingerprints.
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American geneticists discover a region of DNA that does not hold any genetic information and is extremely variable between individuals. Starting our path on DNA recognition.
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American geneticists discover a region of DNA that does not hold any genetic information and is extremely variable between individuals. Starting our path on DNA recognition.
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The Forensic Science Service launches the UK’s first online footwear coding and detection management system, Footwear Intelligence Technology.
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Michigan state university develops software that automatically matches hand-drawn facial sketches to mug shots stored in databases.
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Japanese researchers develop a dental x-ray matching system. This system can automatically match dental x-rays in a database, and makes a positive match in less than 4 seconds.
