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Archaeologists discovered that fingerprints can be pressed onto clay tablets in Babylon. -
These observations were published in "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London" and "Anatomy of the Human Body" -
Mayor described that "the arrangement of skin ridges is never duplicated in two persons", meaning that not one fingerprint is the same as the other -
This person created a way to identify criminals, this was called Bertillionage. -
Bertillonage was first used in 1883 to identify a repeating offender -
Francis Galton began his own observations of fingerprints, found that this is an use of identification. -
For a criminal case, Eduardo Alvarez made identification of a crime with just a fingerprint. He found a woman who killed her two sons then herself afterwards. -
The United States army started utilizing fingerprints as personal identification. -
Twenty two people came together and created the International Association for Criminal Identification which is known as one of the biggest forensic organizations in the world. -
This year the FBI had successfully had over 100 million fingerprints processed and kept in criminal files.