Show IDEA originated IN ORIENT fingerprint finger pinner print system claimed to have been in use in far east for many years the iho fingerprint finger print system that sleuth all ail over the world have sue used in latching desperate criminals was the invention of orientals orient als either cither chinese chinesa or japanese according to fillipo de Fi filippa lippl writing in nature the discovery was originally credited to sir W herschel in a parliamentary blue book but Ml nakata a japanese proved the case for the eq esst s t no one in the controversy quoted rashad drastild ud din who wrote about the system in use in cathay even in his day it was a fingerprint finger print system of a sort although not like that in ili uso use today there was no blackening ot of the hands prior to the taking of the impression but rather the hand band wag placed on paper and traced by the person taking the print the hands of contracting parties were alway placed un on deeds in those days dp de filippi says that this indent mcdent system Is worthy of today as study of the dra drawings shows a distinct difference in tile the outlines of fingers of the hands of different individuals divi duals in the length of the fingers fin gera the relative distance made by the axis of the fie thumb and the axis of the first finger and in many other wals ways |