Promoters of Echinacea say that the herb encourages the immune system and reduces many of the symptoms of colds, flu and some other illnesses, infections and conditions. Echinacea is a perennial plant, it lasts for many years.It is approximately from 1 to 2 feet (30 to 60 centimeters) tall when mature.chinacea is a very popular herb and people commonly take it to help combat flu and colds. It is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants in the daisy family-Asteraceae.
AP. DALLAS, Sept. 12â Samuel Bert, the man credited with inventing the snow cone ice machine, died Sunday at Baylor University Medical Center of complications from a fall that broke his hip two weeks ago. He was 88 years old. Mr. Bert worked at the State Fair of Texas for 65 years. His son, Nick, said his father invented a machine to mechanically scrape ice for snow cones in the late 1920's.
The First Machine-Made Snow. A low-temperature laboratory in Canada was studying the effects of rime icing on the intake of a jet engine in the 1940s. Lead by Dr. Ray Ringer, the researchers were spraying water into the air just before the engine intake in a wind tunnel, trying to reproduce natural conditions.