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Early 1880's; William Herschel, Chief Administrative Officer of
Bengal used thumb impressions to identify workers |
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1880; Dr Henry Faulds, an English physician working in Tokyo,
published a letter in the journal Nature suggesting the use of
fingerprints for identification purposes. |
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1892; After some years of research the English scientist Sir
Francis Galton published a book entitled Finger Prints in
which was laid out a method of classification of fingerprints.
Read here an electronic "reprint" of Sir Francis Galton's paper on
fingerprints in Nature;
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1897; Another Indian Police officer Sir Edward Henry proposed a
modified classification system which was adopted by Scotland Yard in
1901 and is still the basis of the systems used in most English
speaking countries. |
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1901; First official use of fingerprints in the USA by the New
York City Civil Service Commission. |
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1930 National fingerprint file set up in America by the FBI. |
