History of Forensic Science

  • 1784

    First recorded instance of physical matching evidence that was leaded up to a murder conviction. (John Toms in England)
  • 1806

    Investigating poisoning a German chemist had developed a method to detecting arsenic in a persons stomach. And the investigations of poison deaths.
  • 1880

    Fingerprints where first discovered by Henry Fualds and William James published a paper about it.
  • 1892

    When fingerprints was first discovered and used in a murder investigation.
  • 1903

    created a system to fingerprint ID prisoners and first used in the New York jails.
  • 1905

    When the FBI had first begin from President Roosevelt.
  • 1909

    Switzerland was where the first Forensic school was discovered
  • 2008

    Scientist had discovered a way to detect fingerprints even if the fingerprint haves been wiped.
  • 2011

    Michigan State University had developed a machine that identity's hand- drawn sketches of mugshots in there databases
  • 2011

    Japanese researchers had made a dental matching system that runs dental x rays in under 4 seconds.