NATS 1575 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Juan Vucetich, Fingerprint, Finger Ridges
21 May 2017
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The first systematic attempt at personal identification was devised by a french police expert, The bertillion system relied on a detailed description of the subject, combined with full length and profile photographs and a system of precise body measurements called anthropometry. In 1892 francis galton published his classic textbook finger prints. At galton"s insistence, the british government adopted fingerprinting as a supplement to the. The next step was the creation of classification systems capable of filing many thousands of prints in a logical and searchable sequence. West and the other william west), it was fingerprinting that clearly distinguished them: after the will west incident, the use of fingerprinting by the new york city civil service. Commission in 1901, and the training of american police by scotland yard representatives at the 1904 world"s fair, fingerprinting began to be used in earnest in all major u. s. cities.
