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Sir Edward Richard Henry, the new head of Scotland Yard, adopts fingerprint identification. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Fingerprint_picture.svg/2000px-Fingerprint_picture.svg.png
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Georg Popp uses geological evidence in criminal case for the first time.
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Theodore Roosevelt establishes the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the US.
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Victor Balthazard and Marcelle Lambert publish the first study of hairs.
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Victor Balthazard enlarges bullets and casings with photography in an attempt to match a fired bullet to the weapon that fired it.
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Masaeo Takayama develops a microscopic test the utilizes crystals to accurately detect hemoglobin.
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J.J. Thomas builds the first mass spectrometer, the hyperbola spectrograph.
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A vacuum like a machine is used by Albert Schneider to collect trace evidence at a crime scene.
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Calvin Goddard, Charles E. Waite, Phillip O. Gravelle, and John H. Fisher create the comparison microscope for comparing bullets.
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The FBI finishes its first crime lab.
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R. F. Borkenstein invents the breathalyzer for police testing.
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A. S. Weiner identifies the O blood type using H-lectin.
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Hungary begins to study lip prints.
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The US begins to use an Automated Fingerprint Identification System to compare figerprints.
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The UK begins to use DNA in forensic profiling.
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