How Fingerprinting Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Babylonians, one of the earliest civilizations, were the first to use fingerprints to differentiate people, but it wasn't until the 19th century that prints were used for crime fighting. Ever since, analyzing, classifying and collecting fingerprints t

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:31.2	Welcome to Stucky Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
0:34.9	Hey and welcome to the podcast.
0:42.7	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Jerry and there's some
0:46.5	papers in front of me and then I key a lamp and a big old microphone and it's all pressing
0:50.9	in on me really hard.
0:53.2	That means that this is Stucky Should Know.
0:55.8	That means Josh is going on vacation soon.
0:58.8	When the microphone is the size of a watermelon, it's just hitting you in the face.
1:04.4	Yeah I'm like it doesn't normally abrade my chin.
1:07.2	It is today so.
1:08.2	Yeah Chuck.
1:09.2	Josh how are you doing?
1:11.2	I'm great.
1:12.2	You got some fingerprints there let me see you.
1:14.6	I do.
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