When were "fingerprints" first used for ID?
1000-2000 B.C. - Fingerprints were used on clay tablets for business transactions in ancient Babylon.
3rd Century B.C. - Thumbprints begin to be used on clay seals in China to “sign” documents.
610-907 A.D. - During the T’ang Dynasty, a time when Imperial China was one of the most powerful and wealthy regions of the world, fingerprints are reportedly used on official documents.
Some one would have to look at the fingerprint to verity that was the same person.
More Info:
www.fingerprintamerica.com
What are your thoughts on this subject?
20 Comments
dick aspel
One of those questions just laid to trip up and trick. They had no means of cross-referencing so pretty much baloney.
Dirk A Schnarr
https://www.onin.com/fp/fphistory.html
Purposely deceptive question!
Orlando Giménez
When were "fingerprints" first used for ID?
1911 - Fingerprints are first accepted by U.S. courts as a reliable means of Identification.
Spencer Young
Wow, they must have had a huge database.
David Colloby
I suspected a trick question and went for the obvious
Donald McBurney
1896 would be the correct answer.there is no place for trick questions here.
lls
...I know what "you're" saying, but I'm still going with 1911...
vonlora
murdock was on to something, thou he called them fingermarks
Cheryl Maxwell
Ken Putnam, I agree with you.
JRW
Ken Putnam, identification is necessary for certification!
JRW
Ken Putnam, identification is necessary for certification!
Ken Putnam
Louella Wilson,
Clones should stop defending clones
Ken Putnam
Louella Wilson,
That is not "used for Identification", but as certification, like a seal on a document
Question is completely bogus
Ken Putnam
That is not "used for Identification", but as certification, like a seal on a document
Question is completely bogus
Player
I suspected a trick question and clicked accordingly.
Chris Braid
Caught me out with that one!
Donald McBurney
Orlando Giménez, i believe they were first used in 1896 but not accepted by courts yet.
Louella Wilson
For the doubters below "The earliest example comes from a Chinese document en-
titled “The Volume of Crime Scene Investigation—Burglary”,
from the Qin Dynasty (221 to 206 B.C.). The document con-
tains a description of how handprints were used as a type
of evidence".
Louella Wilson
Orlando Giménez, that was merely a court finally accepting them. The science and cataloging was well established and accepted some decades prior.
Ken Murray
Agree with other contributors. Another smart question.