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In the 14th centry the Persians where the first to use fingerprints on official doucments.
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Professor Marcello Malpighi of the Universty of Bolonga was the first to note that fingerprints have distinct marks on them.
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Johannes Ecengelista Purkinje writes a thesis in which he describes nine different types of fingerprints.
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Sir William James Herschel wrote a contract with the natives from India and required a handprint from the natives on the contract as a sign of a fingerprint. After this he reqired a print of two fingers on all documents that he had.
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Professor Paul-Jean Coulier made the observation that you can perserve fingerprints and that you can use them to identify a suspects fingerprints using a magnifying glass.
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Dr Henry Faluds describes that you can retireve fingerprints from people by using printer ink and that it is a unique identifier for every person.
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Gilber Thompson used his fingerprint on offical documents to guard agsinst forgery. This was the first time that fingerprints where used as a way of identification in America.
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French police clerk Alphonse Bertillon came up with a system of classification for bodyparts know as the Anthropometry. It used the length of different body parts to identify a person.
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In Mark Twain's book "Life on the Mississippi" fingerprints where used as a was to identify a murder.
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Sir Francis Galton began to study fingerprints to see if there was a way to learn genetic history from them.
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Juan Vucetich, a police offical from Agentine was the first to began a file system that was based on the fingerprint types.
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Francis Galton publised his book that descricbed the different types of fingerprints and patterns.
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Sir Edward Richard Henry created his own system of fingerprint identification which had 1,024 primary classifications.
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The Council of the Governor General of India approved to have a committee too see if fingerprints should be used for a classification of criminal records.
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The UK conducted a study to determine if fingerprints can be used to identify criminals. In the end they decided to switch from the current method to the new fingerprint method.
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London Metro Police created their own branch that deals with the classification of fingerprints and tehre use of cases.
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Alphonse Bertillon had the first criminal fingerprint identification to ID an unknwon suspect.
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The use of fingerprints starts to spread in the US as the NYPD, NY prision systems and the Federal Prision Bureau all adopt the use of fingerprints as a way to identify suspects.
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The St. Louis PD and the Levenworth State Penitentiary in Kansas start using fringerprints.
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The U.S. Navy and the Marines start using fingerprints as a way of identification.
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The first figerprint storage faculity opens in North America. It is located in Ottawa and stored 2000 fingerprints.
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Twenty two fingerprint identificaton experts met in Oakland, California and created the "Internation Association for Criminal Identification."
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Edmont Locard created the 12 point system which said that if two fingerprints had at least 12 points the same then they are a match.
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The FBI adopts the use of fingerprints through a Congressional Act.
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The Automated Fingerprint Identifaction System is created and starts to anaylze fingerprints using computers.
