Guillotine?
2006-10-04 11:00:54 · 4 answers · asked by Ele 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
http://wywy.essortment.com/guillotinehisto_rgxj.htm
This will tell you everything you want to know....it was not named after its inventor. Dr. Guillotin only advocated it as a more humane death for prisoners and became associated with it from there on.
2006-10-04 11:03:44 · answer #1 · answered by Kelly S 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just go to wikipedia for a bunch of interesting info on this decapitation device: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine
2006-10-04 18:11:14 · answer #2 · answered by fried_twinkie1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
france.
look at the word.
it's a head-chopper-offer-thing.
large blade suspended with from rope on door-frame-like object with groves to guide the blade to it's end position
headmans block with groove placed below
neck placed on block crossing grove. basket placed below head.
rope cut, neck cut
ouch.
very dramatic.
2006-10-04 18:04:37 · answer #3 · answered by The greatest and the best. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it might be named after the inventor...it is to chop off heads.
2006-10-04 18:03:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋