FSC239Y5 Lecture : Fingerprints
Document Summary
Fingerprints were used as signatures in ancient babylon in the second millennium bce. Sometime before 851 ce chinese merchants using fingerprints to authenticate loans. In 1880, dr henry faulds a scottish surgeon in a tokyo hospital, published his first paper on the subject in the scientific journal nature, discussing the usefulness of fingerprints for identification. Alphonse bertillion created in 1879 a system to identify individuals by anthropometric photographs and associated quantitative descriptions. 1904 inspector edward foster in canada convinced the r. c. m. o of the importance of the utility of fingerprints. Fingerprints can be sorted into 3 general categories: arch: the ridges enter from one side, make a rise in the center and exit generally on the opposite side (plain arch, tented arch) Loop: the ridges enter from either side, re-curve and pass out or tend to pass out the same side they entered (left slant loop, right slant loop)