Show trace guillotine far beyond dr guillotin Gul lotin paris who invented the guillotine seems to be troubling the trench since there has been agitation for the alls continuance of beheading by machine dr joseph ignace guillotin Gul lotin an au on anatomy member of the assembly during the revolution demanded equality before the execl aloner and the guillotine wa adopted it was not the doctor who proposed it but because he suggested a stand ard form of execution and because of the similarity of name the guillotine has been supposed by most people to have been the doctors invention old engravings left by the baroness de rothschild however show much the same machine wa used centuries ago german artists in 1550 drew a picture of a machine quite like the modern instrument end italians II 11 lu a story of roman days a similar device in which a heavy sword filling in a groove did the beheading |