2. Information Sources
•You will use the online sources below to gather information about a topic in the history of fingerprints and fingerprint identification.
–Sources include selections from the Student Resource Center online database and the Science e-book World of Forensic Science.  Home access only through the BCPS Databases gateway with required logins, available on a handout from your school library media specialist.
•Go to Slide 3 to select a research topic and get directions and handouts for the Student Activity.
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Brief History of Fingerprint Identification
A History of Latent Fingerprint Analysis
Fingerprint Analysis- Famous Cases
The History of Fingerprints
Ridges & Furrows: Significant Dates & Events
“Every Contact Leaves a Trace”: A History of Fingerprinting
Early Fingerprint Pioneers
Biographies of individual fingerprint pioneers:
Alphonse Bertillon
Henry Faulds
Francis Galton
Sir Edward Richard Henry
William James Herschel
Fuseo Matsumur
Juan Vucetich
AFIS and IAFIS
Recent advancements in fingerprint technology:
Farewell Fuzzy Fingerprinting?
Chemical Imager Reveals “Invisible” Fingerprints
Superglue Fingers Bomb Suspects