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Skylar Smithpeters - Forensic Timeline

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  • Revolutionary Case
    1200

    Revolutionary Case

    First case to use forensics was in china in the 13th century. Flies are attracted to blood, so when someone in the village collected all the knives, the flies landed on only one of the knives.
  • Toxicology

    Toxicology

    Valentin Ross developed a method of isolating arsenic in the arsenic in the stomach. Developed into toxicology.
  • William Herschel

    William Herschel

    William Herschel used thumbprints to identify workers in India.
  • Henry Fauld

    Henry Fauld

    Henry Fauld used fingerprints to rule out a burglary suspect.
  • Chromotagraph Invented

    Chromotagraph Invented

    The chromotagraph, used in toxicology screening, invented by Mikhal Tswett.
  • Blood Grouping

    Blood Grouping

    Karl Landsteiner developed Human Blood Grouping.
  • Forensic School

    Forensic School

    Rodolphe Archibald Reiss founded the first forensic school in Switzerland.
  • Polygraph

    Polygraph

    John Larson invented the first Polygraph test
  • August Vollmer

    August Vollmer

    August Vollmer established first crime lab in US in LA.
  • Comparison Microscope Invented

    Comparison Microscope Invented

    First Comparison Microscope invented by Philip Gravelle and Calvin Goddard
  • DNA Genetics

    DNA Genetics

    Oswald Avery, Colin Macleod, and Maclyn McCarty discovered that DNA carried genetic information.
  • AFIS

    AFIS

    FBI establishes AFIS