TYPES OF FINGERPRINTS

The history of fingerprints goes back to the chinese 3,000 years.  They used fingerprints as a form of signature for legal documents.   In 1880 Henry Fauld published an article where he discussed the discovery that human fingerprints have a unique pattern.  In other words no two individuals have the same fingerprint pattern.  And finally Sir Francis Galton put fingerprints into three catergories; loops, arches and whorls.  Based on these categories Sir Edwards Henry developed another classification system which the F.B.I. still uses today.  

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