How long has fingerprinting been used in CSI?

How long has fingerprinting been used in CSI?

I guess when you look at the history of fingerprinting you can go back 3000 years where the Chinese have been. We're known to have used the fingerprints to seal or record a seal for documents. But in actuality the history of fingerprints begins around 1880 with an individual by the name, an English individual by the name of Henry Fauld who published his treaty on fingerprinting and identified it as a means for characterizing or identifying a human being. A couple of years later another Englishman by the name of Francis Gaulton published a very well-known textbook known as Fingerprints, where he discussed the various fingerprint patterns that were useful for identifying humans through fingerprinting.