CSI timeline By nathanst 1735 DNA was first used in 1735, discovered by the Italian Dr Ludo Fontini. 1858 Sir William Herschel requires fingerprints and signatures on civil documents 1880 Dr. Henry Faulds publishes articles in “Nature” 1882 the Bertillon System was invented 1892 the first book on fingerprints was published by Sir Francis Galton 1901 Sir Edward Henery developes first system of classifying fingerprinting. 1905 Us Military adopts the fingerprinting method 1908 first fingerprint card was developed 1911 fingerprints were adopted by the courts in the US 1953 The shape of DNA was discovered in 1953 by Francis Crick and James Watson. 1980 first computer data base of fingerprints was developed
