In 1823 a Czech physiologist named Johannes Evengelista Purkinje introduced the first known system for classifying fingerprints, although it was met with little fanfare and little use at the time.

After the Galton-Henry system of fingerprint classification was published in 1900, it Scotland Yard officially adopted it in 1901 for criminal records. Less than a decade later, Jennings left four ...

Galtson soon realised that fingerprints indeed were a good way to uniquely identify criminals. There are four basic patterns used to classify fingerprints - the arch, the loop and the whorl ...