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Luigi Galvani
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Carl Linnaeus publishes first edition of Systema Naturae
Linnaeus', known as the 'Father of Taxonomy,' work of organizing and naming organisms helped scientists identify certain species of insects at the larva and adult stage. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html -
General Joseph Warren
Warren killed at the battle of Bunker Hill is disinterred from a mass grave and identified by Paul Revere, who made his false teeth. -
Toxicology first used in a trial.
The first documented case of physical matching occurs when an Englishman is convicted of murder. this was the first time used and it was in a jury trial. -
First crystal test for hemoglobin
1810 Eugène François Vidocq, in return for a suspension of arrest and a jail sentence, made a deal with the police to establish the first detective force, the Sûreté of Paris. -
Defective Force
Mathiew Orfila considered the father of modern toxicology, he was the first great 19th-century exponent of forensic medicine and he worked to make chemical analysis a routine part of forensic medicine, and made studies of asphyxiation, the decomposition of bodies, and exhumation -
farm worker
In Warwick in 1816, a farm laborer was tried and convicted of the murder of a young maidservant. She had been drowned in a shallow pool and bore the marks of violent assault. The police found footprints and an impression from corduroy cloth with a sewn patch in the damp earth near the pool. -
Charles Babbage
Charles was an English polymath, a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. he was also known as "the father of computer". -
Scotland Yard
London"s detective force was the first to use bullet comparison to catch a murder. As of now the Scotland Yard is a metonym for the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Service, the territorial police force responsible for policing most of London. -
James Marsh
James was a British chemist who invented the Marsh test for detecting arsenic. Also the man who invented the Marsh test for detecting arsenic. He invented the test during a time when it was enough sensitive to detect as little as one-fiftieth of a milligram. -
Samuel Colt
colt born in Connecticut a gun manufacturer received a U.S. patent for a revolver mechanism that enabled a gun to be fired multiple times without reloading. Colt founded a company to manufacture his revolving-cylinder pistol. by his death in 1862 he had sol a million guns already. -
Marie Lafarge
She was a Frenchwoman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. she was also charged with poisoning her husband Charles. The notorious murder trial put the young science of toxicology to a dramatic test. Rumored to be unhappy in her marriage, Marie Lafarge, was only 24.
