Fingerprint Techniques
Fingerprint identification has been around for a long time. Dating back to 1856, Sir William Hershel began using fingerprints by requiring people to not only sign business contracts but to impress their hand on the back of the contract. In the beginning, his intentions were not directed at personal identification. The print was simply used “to frighten him out of all thought of repudiating him signature” (The History of Fingerprints). As Hershel’s fingerprint collection grew, he began to note that the linked impressions could prove or disprove identity. During the 1870’s, Dr. Henry Faulds, a British Surgeon of Tsukiji Hospital in Japan, studied “skin furrows” after taking notice of finger marks on prehistoric pottery. He then devised a method of classification. Mr. Faulds passed on an explanation of his classification system, along with samples of the forms he had design for recording inked impressions, to Charles Darwin. However, because of Mr. Darwin’s old age and ill health, he informed Faulds that he would pass the material on to his cousin Francis Galton. Sir Francis Galton, a British anthropologist, published a book called “Fingerprints.” The book included the first classification system for fingerprints can be i
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