forensics timeline

in 700 a.d the Chinese used fingerprints to identify documents and sculptures

john toms was convicted and tried for the murderof Edward Culshaw based on a piece of paper found at the crime scene that matched a piece of paper found in his pocket

Mathieu Orfila is born he wrote about the detection of poisons and there affect on animals

Sir Francis Galton "the father of fingerprinting"whites book fingerprints explaining how fingerprints can be used to uniquely identify individuals

Alphonse Bertillon invented the Bertillion system to distinguish one individual person from another based on certain body mesurments

the book of Xi Yuan Lu written by Song Ci in china is writen about using medicine and entymology to solve crime

the earlyest use of a lie detector using blood presure isinvented by Cesare Lombroso

First school of forensic science founded by Rodolphe Archibald Reiss, in Switzerland.

Edmond Locard opens first crime lab in the attic of a police station

Leone Lattes discovers a method of determining blood type from a dried blood sample