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History of Fingerprints

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  • Purkinje

    Purkinje
    Purkinje, published his thesis, talking about nine different fingerprints.
  • Juan Vucetich

    Juan Vucetich
    Vucetich made the first criminal fingerprint identification
  • US Marines Start Using Fingerprints

    US Marines Start Using Fingerprints
  • Congress Makes new Departments

    These include the IACP's National Bureau of Criminal Identification and the US Justice Department's Bureau of Criminal Identification
  • 100 Fingerprint Cards

    The FBI produced 100 fingerprint cards
  • Interpol

    Interpol records over 150,000 sets of fingerprints from criminal records
  • Americas Largest Database

    The Department of Homeland Security has over 120 million fingerprints
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    History of Fingerprints