JEEZER S.

LAURIAN SEPTEMBER 14, 2230

TTH- 7:3- 9:00 AM FORENSC 6-POLYGRAPHY

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF POLYGRAPH

DATE PERSONALITY CONTRIBUTION
1. 1730 Daniel Defoe "An Effectual Scheme to the Immediate Preventing
and Suppressing of Street Robberies all Other
Disorders of the Night" advance a theory that the
pulse of a suspicious person can reveal that the person
is lying.

2. 1878 Angelo Mosso Italian physiologist Angelo Mosso used an instrument

called a plethysmograph to detect the change in blood
pressure in response to certain stimuli.

3. 1892 James Mackenzie He constructed an instrument that could be used

during medical examinations with the ability to
simultaneously record undulated traces of vascular
pulse (radial, venous and arterial), by way of a stylus
on a rotary drum of smoked paper.

4. 1895 Cesare Lombroso Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, modified an

existing instrument called a hydrosphygmograph and
used it to measure physiological changes in the blood
pressure and pulse of a suspect questioned by police.

5. 1921 John A. Larson Canadian psychologist John A. Larson was the first
person to measure and record continuously and
simultaneously the heart rate, blood pressure and
respiratory variations of a person during an
interrogation. His polygraph was used extensively and
very successfully, in criminal investigations.

6. 1939 Leonarde Keeler Leonarde Keeler patented what is considered the

prototype of the modern polygraph - the Keeler
Polygraph. To Leonarde Keeler is known as the father
of the polygraph.

REFERENCE
Kelly, N. (n.d.). http://www.kellypolygraphe.com/polygraph-history.php#:~:text=Sir%20James
%20Mackenzie%2C%20MD%2C%20constructed,rotary%20drum%20of%20smoked
%20paper.

REFERENCE

Kelly, N. (n.d.). http://www.kellypolygraphe.com/polygraph-history.php#:~:text=Sir%20James

%20Mackenzie%2C%20MD%2C%20constructed,rotary%20drum%20of%20smoked
%20paper.