-
When the Chinese used fingerprints to establish the identity of documents and clay sculptures.
-
First forensic manual by the chinese. First known medical knowledge.
-
First recorded instance of physical matching of evidence leading to a murder conviction. Evidence was a torn edge of newspaper in a pistol that matched newspaper in his pocket.
-
A bullet comparison used to catch a murderer.
The development of the first crystal test for hemoglobin using hemin crystals.
The first use of photography for the identification of criminals and documentation of evidence and crime scenes.
The first recorded use of fingerprints to solve a crime. -
German chemist Valentin Ross developed a method of detecting arsenic in a victim's stomach, thus advancing the investigation of poison deaths.
-
Coroner's act established that coroners' were to determine the causes of sudden, violent, and unnatural deaths. Arthur Conan Doyle also publishes the first Sherlock Holmes story.
-
Doctors in London, England, were allowed to examine the victims of Jack the Ripper for wound patterns.
-
Almost every year we had major forensics advancements.
-
First school of forensic science founded by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, in Switzerland
-
Establishment of the popular practice of using the comparison microscope for bullet comparison.
-
Development of the absorption-inhibition ABO blood typing technique
-
Invention of the first interference contrast microscope by Dutch physicist Frits Zernike
-
Enactment of the Federal Rules of Evidence
-
the introduction of DNA profiling in the U.S.
-
DNA Databank legislation was enacted
-
Develops online footwear coding and detection system. Developed software that automatically matches hand-drawn facial sketches to mug shots stored in databases. Japanese researchers develop a dental x-ray matching system.