Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . stantially. The guillotineis mentioned in German hooks of1534, 1551, and 1570. It is called the Konian fall-ing-axe, and the decollation of St. Jlatthcw therebywas a favorite subject with illuminatoi-s of niauu-scripts 250 years before the French Kevolution. In the London Monthly Magazine, April 1,1800,p. 247, is an enumeration of ten cuts and engrav-ings of the
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . stantially. The guillotineis mentioned in German hooks of1534, 1551, and 1570. It is called the Konian fall-ing-axe, and the decollation of St. Jlatthcw therebywas a favorite subject with illuminatoi-s of niauu-scripts 250 years before the French Kevolution. In the London Monthly Magazine, April 1,1800,p. 247, is an enumeration of ten cuts and engrav-ings of the sixteenth century in which a guillotineis employed. Tile representations are principallymartyrdoms of saints. During the war of the Spanish Succession, 1702-13, Count Bozelli was decapitated by the guillotine,which is thus described by a traveler who witnessedthe act: — In the great square was erected a scaffold, cov-ered with black. In the middle of it was placed a GUILLOTINE. 1030. GUITAR. ftreat lilock uf wood, exactly of siicli liiglit thiit tl)i>criiuiiial, nil liis knees, eoiild lay his lieiul upon it,between the pilhirs of a soit of gallows, wliieli sup-ported an axe of a foot in liiglit and a foot and a Fig. Guilfotinf^. half in breadth, sliding in a groove. The axe had of above a hundred weiglit of lead attached toits upper side, and was su4|ienilftd by a cord fast-ened to the gallows. The executioner cut the cordthat .supported the axe. The d-adly instrument inits fall severed the head from the body, and pene-trated about two inches into the block.* The original instraiuent was probably Persian. The French cjaiUotiiir. has a heavy knife, slidingin vertical grooves in a frame. It is a grim subject, but, involving meehanic-r!construction, is within our scope. An observer in Paris thus records the appearancsof the niacliiiie and the mode of using it: — On a jilatlbrm about 12 feet scjuare, and 7 feetabove the ground, are erected the two upright post
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