When I was a child, I did something that almost made me lose my fingerprints: I was a greedy eater and peeled an apple with a knife, and I accidentally cut off a piece of the flesh on my finger. I don't remember how much it hurt back then, but I remember that there was only a piece of flesh attached to the skin on the pad of my index finger, and if the skin also fell off, the flesh on my fingertip would be gone.
Later memories are that the fingers were tightly wrapped. Now, long after I became an adult, I was looking through the marks on my fingers, only to find that they were long gone. If it weren't for the fact that my childhood memories were too real, I might have thought it was a dream I had. The dream is still there, the flesh on the finger is still there, but the taste of the apple is gone.
It can be seen that when we were children, our recovery ability was still quite strong, so until now, the fingerprints on my hands have not been damaged at all. Occasionally, though, I would look at my ten fingers and think about what my grandmother once said: "One snail is poor and the other snail is rich, and the silk is scattered and the pawnshop ......."”
I have watched a lot of police movies, and I have been a modern person for so long, and my understanding of fingerprints is no longer as one-sided as when I was a child, and I also know that the so-called threads on fingerprints are just everyone's unique imprints. As for the statement that I can see the future of people through threads, it has also become my memory.
With the development of the times, there are now more and more fingerprint-related things: with fingerprint password locks, we don't need to bring a lot of keys when we go out and enter the door; Electronic software that uses fingerprints no longer requires us to remember so many passwords ......Everything seems simple, but I occasionally worry about what if one day my fingerprint is cracked.
Why did you have the idea of fingerprint cracking? It stands to reason that fingerprints are unique to everyone, so how can there be any worries about being cracked? Maybe it's because the Internet is too developed, and I have seen different attempts by different people on fingerprint cracking posted on the Internet, so far, the lock of my house is still a password lock, and it has not been replaced with a fingerprint; And my electronic devices are still password locks, and they have not been replaced with fingerprints.
But what I am most interested in is the contribution of fingerprints in solving crimes, or I wonder when fingerprints were found to be used to solve crimes. When were fingerprints discovered, and everyone is different? Is there any difference between fingerprints in the history of human development? So, I started reading Fingerprints: History, Laws, and Legends.
In 1878, Henry Foltz discovered traces of fingerprints on pottery shards from prehistoric times, and he began to seriously study the ridges or "furrows" on the tips of people's fingers, and came up with the theory that the patterns and patterns of fingerprints of people vary regardless of race and gender. So, in 1880 he wrote to a British scientific journal that such a "natural copy" of the fingerprint was useful in the criminal record.
But Fultz was not the first to discover the existence of fingerprints, but the fingerprints were with him and received more attention. Foltz's greatest contribution should have been his offer to "work for a small department for free to test the value and usefulness of fingerprinting." In an era when everyone is not optimistic about fingerprint identification criminals, Foltz has changed everyone's attitude towards fingerprints with his practical actions.
After Foltz's death, the Glasco Herald had a short obituary about him: "Pioneered the application of fingerprint systems in criminal investigations". As written in the book "Fingerprints: History, Laws, and Legends", this obituary is a very rigorous and accurate assessment for Foltz. I think that if it weren't for Foltz's obsession with fingerprints, perhaps the time when fingerprints would have played a role in criminal investigations would have been long before that.
Fingerprints: History, Laws and Legends not only tells about the various developments in the discovery and use of fingerprints, but also tells about the different collisions of fingerprint research by different people in some eras, and of course, it is inseparable from the role of fingerprints in criminal investigation. So when I was reading "Fingerprints: History, Laws and Legends", I not only read the magical history of fingerprints, but also saw various criminal investigation cases, which made me have to sigh that the role of fingerprints is really too great.
From a modern point of view, whether in life or in other places, fingerprints can play a great role in various fields. In other words, fingerprints used to exist only for criminal incidents, but now they have become an inseparable existence in life, after all, it is an undeniable fact that everything is now fingerprinted.
Every development needs a long history to change, just as fingerprints are widely used in criminal investigations, it was once suspected by everyone and did not play any role, until now criminal investigations are often inseparable from it. This is probably the benefit of historical development, and it is also an iteration of the increasingly convenient life for all of us.