William James Herschel is credited with being…

July 1858 CE

William James Herschel is credited with being the first European to note the value of fingerprints for identification. A British officer working for the Indian Civil Service in Bengal, he uses the hand impression of Rajyadhar Konai as a contract fingerprint signature on July 28, 1858.

Herschel is credited with being the first European to note the value of fingerprints for identification.

He recognizes that fingerprints are unique and permanent.

Herschel documents his own fingerprints over his lifetime to prove permanence.

He is also credited with being the first person to use fingerprints in a practical manner. 

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Calcutta > Kolkata West Bengal India View →

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East India Company, British (United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies) View → India, East India Company rule in View → Bengal Presidency View → Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) View → British Raj; India (Indian Empire) View →

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Colonization of Asia, British View → Indian Rebellion of 1857 (Great Indian Mutiny or Sepoy Rebellion) View →

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