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Ancient artifacts were found with similar friction to ridge skin.
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There were Chinese records that had details about using handprints for burglary investigations.
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There was a book made called "Jaamehol-Tawarikh" which includes comments about the practice of identifying people from their fingerprints.
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In the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London" paper, Dr. Nehemiah Grew was the first European to publish friction ridge skin observations.
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Dutch anatomist Govard Bidloo's book, "Anatomy of the Human Body" had descriptions of friction ridge skin details.
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German anatomist Johann Christoph Andreas Mayer wrote the book "Anatomical Copper-plates with Appropriate Explanations" containing drawings of friction ridge skin patterns and he was also the first person to state that friction ridge skin is unique.
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He published a thesis discussing 9 different fingerprint patterns.
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He studied friction ridge skin permanence by printing his own right hand.
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On a whim, and without thought toward personal identification, Herschel had Rajyadhar Konai impress his hand print on a contract.
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There were observations made that fingerprints can be developed on paper by iodine fuming and Coulier explained how fingerprints could be preserved.
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Taylor proposed that finger and palm prints left on any object might be used to solve crimes.
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Fingerprints were recognized as a method of classification. Faulds is credited with the first latent print identification.
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Thompson used his own thumb print on a document to prevent forgery. This was the first use of fingerprints in the US.
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Bertillon developed a new system of classification called anthropometry.
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In one of his books a murderer was identified using fingerprints.
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Galton began his observations of fingerprints as a means of identification in the 1880's.
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Vucetich began his first fingerprint files based on Galton pattern types.
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A woman who murdered her two sons and slit her own throat was identified from her bloody print left on a door post.
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Hodgson gave a lecture about fingerprints at the Sydney School of Arts and used a special diagram in the lecture.
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The Council of the Governor General of India approved a committee report that fingerprints should be used for the classification of criminal records.
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Henry wrote a book called "The Classification and Use of Fingerprints."
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Fingerprints are starting to be used by the Scottish police.
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Dr. Henry Pelouze de Forest pioneered the first American use of fingerprints.
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Prisons in New York and Kansas started using fingerprints.
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The use of fingerprints in America began at the St. Louis Police Department.
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US Army starts using fingerprints.
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US Navy starts using fingerprints.
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U.S. Marine Corps begins using fingerprints.
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First American textbook on fingerprints was written.
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The idea of INTERPOL was born.
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Locard wrote that if twelve different points were the same between two fingerprints, it would be a positive identification.
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US Department of Justice Fingerprint Repository Returns to Washington, DC.
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FBI's Identification Division is formed.
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The FBI processed over 100 million fingerprint cards in files maintained manually.
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The FBI's Latent Print Unit completed 9,668 latent print cases from local, state and federal American law enforcement.
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The International Association for Identification Standardization Committee stated that every fingerprint is unique and can't be the same as another.
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The Fingerprint Society was founded.
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The world's first certification program for fingerprint experts was established.
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The Neurim Declaration was issued.
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INTERPOL's Automated Fingerprint Identification System repository exceeds 150,000 sets of fingerprints.
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The International Association for Identification celebrated it's 100th Anniversary.
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The Department of Homeland Security's Office of Biometric Identity Management contains over 120 million persons' fingerprints.
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The Unique Identification Authority of India is the world's largest fingerprint system using fingerprint, face and iris biometric records.
