... 4. 1888 - Sir Francis Galton a. Galton, a British anthropologist, began his research on fingerprints as a mean of identification in the 1880's. b. His well-known book, Fingerprints, included the first fingerprint classification system, as well as establishing individuality and permanence of fingerprints. c. When his primary interest in determining heredity and racial background from fingerprints failed, we came upon the ... 1892, he made the first fingerprint identification from a bloody fingerprint left on a doorpost. 6. 1901 a. The method of fingerprints for criminal identification was ...

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... cases."1 Forensic science has really advanced over the years. The first recorded application of medical knowledge to the solution of a crime was in a Chinese book, His Duan Yu (the washing away of wrongs), written in 1248. It contains a description of how to distinguish drowning and strangulation. These days, we have ways of telling whether the person was drowned intentionally or not and if their strangulation was ... which a print cannot be developed. Computers have made the techniques used to match fingerprints very easy. Until recently, the old way was the Henry Classification System...

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