The guillotine is synonymous with the terror that followed the French Revolution, but did the machine's inventor really fall victim to his own creation? Myth: Joseph ...

A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...

You’ve probably seen the guillotine in historical epics and Dickens adaptations. But were you aware that it struck a blow for egalitarianism in more than one way? The French believed the guillotine’s ...

YouTuber and musician Benjamin "Rusty Cage" (1.69 million subscribers) has garnered widespread attention recently due to a viral livestream featuring a rather unsettling event. During the stream, ...

A HAMPSHIRE company has been prosecuted for safety failings after two of its workers each had the ends of their fingers sheared off by guillotine machines at work. Both the injured workers’ ring ...