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4 unusual facts about Henry Faulds


Faulds

Henry Faulds, a Scottish scientist who is noted for the development of fingerprinting

Henry Faulds

The following month Sir William Herschel, a British civil servant based in India, wrote to Nature saying that he had been using fingerprints (as a form of bar code) to identify criminals since 1860.

Whilst accompanying a friend (American archeologist, Edward S. Morse) to an archaeological dig he noticed how the delicate impressions left by craftsmen could be discerned in ancient clay fragments.

Wolstanton

Dr Henry Faulds (1843–1930) was a pioneer of forensic fingerprinting who retired to Wolstanton.



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