A little history about Forensics

Ok, this topic interests me a lot. Did you know that in the history of Forensic Science dates back thousands of years? Fingerprinting was one of it's first applications. n 1835, Scotland Yard's Henry Goddard became the first person to use physical analysis to connect a bullet to the murder weapon. n 1836, a Scottish chemist named James Marsh developed a chemical test to detect arsenic. Nearly a century later, in 1930, scientist Karl Landsteiner won the Nobel Prize for classifying human blood into its various groups. Other tests were developed in the mid-1900s to analyze saliva, semen and other body fluids as well as to make blood tests more precise. So what types of laboratory products do Forensic labs use? While much of the supplies are consumables; for instance swabs, for evidence collection, sterile petri dishes for sample collection, disposable exam gloves, evidence collection jars, sterile sample containers, forceps, and lab coats. The list could go on and on. The list above consists of consumable Forensic laboratory products. While the Forensic lab uses many consumable products, we also have to look at other products the Forensic Scientist might use such as durable laboratory products, centrifuges for spinning samples, pipettes for drawing the samples and placing into centrifuge tubes that are then placed in the centrifuge, and last but not least microscopes.