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History Of Fingerprinting

By hunterchism

  • Marcello Malpighi

    Noticed the ridges, spirals, and loops.

  • John Purkinje

    Published a discussion of 9 fingerprint patterns.

  • Sir William Herschel

    Required Indians to sign with prints.

  • Dr. Henry Faulds

    Recognized their importance in identification.

  • Sir Francis Galton

    Published Finger Prints.

  • Juan Vucetich

    Created a classification system in Argentina.

  • Sir Edward Richard Henry’s

    Classification system included grouping by the 3 key patterns.The Henry System is still in use today.

  • The New York City Civil Service Commission

    Adopts fingerprints for personal identification of all applicants; the first in the U.S.

  • Will West Case

    Used to use the Bertillon system of measurement to identify suspects. Will West was brought to Leavenworth Penitentiary and his Bertillon measurements matched those of another prisoner, William West, already incarcerated for murder.

  • World's Fair in St. Louis

    Representatives from Scotland Yard train several U.S. Police officials.

  • The U.S. Army

    Began using fingerprints.

  • FBI

    Identififcation Division established.

  • Introduction

    Of Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)

  • International Association for Identification (IAI)

    Voted to establish the world's first certification program for fingerprint experts.

  • AFIS computerized fingerprint database

    That can search through millions of records in a short period of time.It provides a list of potential identification “hits.”