History Flashcards
When was fingerprinting first used (China Qin Dynasty)?
BC 221
When was fingerprinting used in Japan?
AD 702
When was fingerprinting first used in the US and UK?
1902
What did Marcello Malpighi contribute?
He noted the friction created between the skin surface and an object
What did Nehemiah Grew do?
Presented a paper on fingerprints concerning patterns and sweat pores (1684)
What did Govard Bidloo contribute to fingerprints?
published “Anatomy of Human Body”
What did Thomas Bedwick create?
3 engravings including a fingerprint
What did JCA Meyer recognise?
The individuality of fingerprints
What did German professor, Johannes Perkinge present?
A thesis describing the 9 types of finger patterns.
What did Sir William Herschel do in the fingerprinting field?
Established “Persistence” and “Immutability” and used fingerprints to individualize
What is Immutability?
No 2 people have the same fingerprints.
What did Dr.Henry Faulds write?
“On the Skin Furrows of the Hand”
What did the cousin of Darwin, Sir Francis Galton do for fingerprinting?
Added the thumb and all 10 fingers to anthropometric measurements and named specific minutiae within the friction ridge
Who was Alphonse Bertillion?
The Father of Scientific Criminal Identification
What landmark firsts did Juan Veucetich contribute?
In 1892, he set up the World’s first Fingerprint Bureau in Argentina and made the first murder conviction using fingerprints.
