However, the name was in use as early as 1811, too early to be named after Carl von Steinheil, and sources from that time instead attribute it to Fabian Steinheil, the Russian military governor of Finland. See also Needle telegraph References External links 1801 births 1870 deaths Engineers from Munich 19th-century German engineers 19th-century German physicists 19th-century German mathematicians 19th-century German inventors 19th-century German astronomers Mathematics educators Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Alsatian-German people Alsatian nobility People from Ribeauvillé Burials at the Alter Südfriedhof