1858: A British colonial magistrate in India starts using fingerprints as a means of identifying people. It's the first-known, modern official use of the technique.
Like many innovations, this one wasn't completely new. Ancient Babylonian clay tablets recording business transactions were sometimes "sealed" with fingerprints. Officials in ancient Rome may have solved one murder by matching the culprit's hand to a...
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Suresh
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