what would the guillotine be called? (object wise) would it be a machine???

Question

Don't refer me to google nor wikepedia....please...thanks

Answer 1

You could easily call it a 'device' or 'instrument' (such as 'a device used to...' or 'an instrument of execution').

Answer 2

Yes, it would be considered a machine.

It contains numerous simple machines. The blades are almost all angled, and sharpened. The angle is an inclined plane, the sharpened edge is a wedge.

The rope that pulls the blade up passes through a pully.

The board that locks the person's head (and sometimes wrists) is often hinged, and a hinge is a form of a wheel (after a fashion).

So the device contains multiple simple machines, meaning it is itself a machine.

Answer 3

I would guess "device". Machine to me infers a source of energy employed other than human. Contraption implies a contrivance not wisely engineered.

The guillotine(s) used in France during their famous revolution, worked quite well I understand. All of the heads came off with one slice: no repeats were required.

Wotan

Answer 4

it was actually named for Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a member of the French Directory who was in charge of a committee to improve on an existing idea.......so his name has passed into history as a small g , just like Rudolph Diesels' invention is just a diesel....

and yeah, I'd call it a device...

Answer 5

Contraption

Answer 6

did you know that the word guillotine is actually a verb, which in french means "to cut the head off", so since it was designed to cut stuff, you could call it a lopper, pruner, cutter or a chopper, cause that's what it does...

Answer 7

Machine


Alice Cooper stage prop?

Answer 8

i'd say machine.

Answer 9

...a deathtrap!