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Herschel (1833-1917) was one of the first to advocate for the use of fingerprinting in criminal suspect identification. In 1858, while working for the Indian Civil Service, he started using thumbprints on papers as a security measure to prevent signature repudiation.
Aug 14, 2021 · Herschel (1833-1917) was one of the first to advocate the use of fingerprinting in the identification of criminal suspects. While working for the Indian Civil Service, he began to use thumbprints on documents as a security measure to prevent the repudiation of signatures in 1858.
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William James Herschel is considered one of the first Europeans to recognize the value of fingerprints for identification purposes. He began using fingerprints and handprints, instead of signatures, in his work as a magistrate in colonial India in the 1850s and 1860s.
Fingerprinting. Fingerprints taken by Herschel 1859/60. Herschel is credited with being the first European to note the value of fingerprints for identification. He recognized that fingerprints were unique and permanent. Herschel documented his own fingerprints over his lifetime to prove permanence.
William James Herschel, a British civil servant in India and grandson of astronomer William Herschel, began using fingerprints in the 1850s for legal contracts. In 1880, Herschel published a letter in the journal Nature describing his fingerprinting work and suggesting the permanence of an individual’s prints.
Nov 22, 2022 · Herschel delves into the scientific and forensic significance of fingerprints, drawing on his own experiences and research in British India. This book is written in a scholarly and...
Oct 13, 2014 · It started in the 1870s when William Herschel, a magistrate in India, was sick of people signing confessions or testimonies and then claiming that the scrawl on the document...
