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Unit 3: Fingerprints Part 1

Unit 3: Fingerprints Part 1. Chapter 17. I. History of Fingerprints. A. Once upon a time . . . 2000 years ago . . .   --Chinese artisans and scribes marked their work by leaving fingerprint in clay. B. Late 1600s --Nehemiah Grew = first scientist to describe fingerprint ridges

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Unit 3: Fingerprints Part 1

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  1. Unit 3: FingerprintsPart 1 Chapter 17

  2. I. History of Fingerprints A. Once upon a time . . . 2000 years ago . . .   --Chinese artisans and scribes marked their work by leaving fingerprint in clay

  3. B. Late 1600s --Nehemiah Grew = first scientist to describe fingerprint ridges C. Late 1800s . . . dactyloscopy begins to emerge   1. Sir William Herschel   a. credited as the first to recognize the value of fingerprints in personal identification (unique) b. periodically took his own fingerprints over 50 years and showed consistency in ridge patterns 2. Henry Faulds . . . observed the same ideas at around the same time

  4. Sir William Herschel

  5. D. Late 1800s . . . anthropometry takes center stage 1. need for a method of criminal identification and classification is great

  6. 2. 1881 Alphonse Bertillon develops bertillonage as means of identification   a. system became widely accepted   b. system based on anthropometry = the study of human body measurements   c. system included 11 measurements

  7. d. system laid a foundation for eventual acceptance of fingerprints as scientific method of personal ID . . . Why? Will West case points to fingerprints

  8. E. 1892-1893 1. Sir Francis Galton publish book, “Finger Prints” 2. Many places add fingerprints to Bertillonage measurements

  9. F. 1899 Henry system   1. Sir Edward Henry develops Henry system of fingerprint identification 2. Classification system based on having all 10 prints (10-print cards filed)

  10. G. 1901 Bertillonage system abandoned H. Now have AFIS (computerized database of fingerprints)

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