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History of Forensics: a TIMELINE. Early Discoveries. In 250 B.C. Erasistratus noticed that his patient’s pulse would increase when they were telling a lie. 1800’s. In 1828 , William Nichol invented the polarizing light microscope. In 1837 , Walter Specht developed luminol.
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Early Discoveries • In 250 B.C. Erasistratus noticed that his patient’s pulse would increase when they were telling a lie.
1800’s • In 1828, William Nichol invented the polarizing light microscope. • In 1837, Walter Specht developed luminol.
1903 – The William West – Will West Case at a Federal Prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, changed the way that people were classified and identified. Anthropometry out … fingerprints in.
In 1889, Alexandre Lacassagne matched bullets to a gun barrel using the number of grooves present – called “rifling”.
FINGERPRINTS • 1858, fingerprints identify an individual in India as the owner of a building, stamped on a document, because he couldn’t write. • 1882, a surveyor in New Mexico put his fingerprints on a survey to show that it was his. • 1892, first criminalfingerprint identificationidentified the mother!
1900’s • Early 1900’s, Locard established first police crime lab, developed his exchange principle: “Every contact leaves a trace” • In 1901 A, B, and O blood types discovered in Vienna, Austria, while trying to figure out why transfusions were killing people.
DNA PROFILING • 1984, Sir Alec Jeffreys developed DNA manipulation techniques, now used world-wide • DNA solved the Colin Pitchfork case. • 1ST CASE in which a suspect was eliminated using DNA
TIME LINE ASSIGNMENT 1. Groups of 32. Assemble 6 events or discoveries, on 6 pages, taped together short end to short end.3. Indicate year at top; invention/discovery at bottom… like this: 1879 (DRAWING) Anthropometry