Engelbert Krauskopf

Born in Bendorf, Germany, he emigrated to the United States in 1846, and became a settler of Fredericksburg, Texas.

He was trained as a cabinetmaker and gunsmith, and during the American Civil War once made a gun barrel especially for Robert E.

[1] He was also an inventor: when ammunition became scarce during the Civil War he and silversmith Adolph Lungkwitz developed a process for the manufacture of gun-caps.

[1] In 1872, he patented an improvement to a throttle valve stand with John M. Compant,[2] and one of his last inventions was a microscope in the form of a magic lantern.

[3][4] An amateur botanist, he described the species Hesperaloe engelmannii (commonly known as Engelmann's red yucca).