Echinacea /ËÉkÉ¨ËneÉªÊâ±É/ is a genus, or group of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family. The Echinacea genus has nine species, which are commonly called purple coneflowers.They are found only in eastern and central North America, where they are found growing in moist to dry prairies and open wooded areas. They have large, showy heads of composite flowers, blooming from early to late summer.he Echinacea genus has nine species, which are commonly called purple coneflowers. They are found only in eastern and central North America, where they are found growing in moist to dry prairies and open wooded areas. They have large, showy heads of composite flowers, blooming from early to late summer.
Silencers were invented by Hiram Percy Maxim. His father invented the first working modern machine gun. H.P. Maxim received his first patent in late March 1909. H.P. Maxim. Inventor of the Silencer. In 1934, congress passed the National Firearms Act which included silencers. This added a prohibitively expensive $200 transfer tax and registration scheme to an item that typically sold for less than $5.
French physician Dominique Anel is usually credited with the invention of the kind of syringe used today. Anel was a surgeon in the army of French King Louis XIV (1638-1715). Anel created his instrument to clean wounds with suction. The first true hypodermic syringe was created by French physician Charles Pravaz in 1853. Made entirely of silver, this syringe held one cubic centimeter of liquid. Around the same time, Scotsman Alexander Wood devised a subcutaneous injection method.