GUILLOTINE

                                                  The guillotine was named after Joseph Ignace Guillotine, the French physician who had proposed its use during the revolution. But Guillotine was not the inventor.
              

                                      A beheading device is known to have been used in Ireland in 1307, and in 1587 William Hartison, an English historian, described the 'Halifax gibbet',a guillotine like instrument that had a horizontal blade rather than a slanting one, it had been unused since very early times.