Monday, August 24, 2009

Timeline of Fingerprints

1686: The history of fingerprinting doesn't have a clear cut beginning but one of the first recorded fingerprint discussions was in 1686
1858: Sir William J. Herschel took the first documented fingerprints in India
1901: Fingerprinting was officially introduced for use for criminal identification in England and Wales

September 10th 1984: The accidental discovery of DNA Fingerprinting
2001: A History of Fingerprinting. And Criminal Identification. By Simon A. Cole

2 comments:

  1. You have good facts but I think you should add a couple more sentences to each so that you can give the reader a little more information.

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  2. I love the pictures. Each is worth a thousand words! Good job Mary

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