drishti current affairs magazine

 drishti current affairs magazine

drishti current affairs magazine published this article page no 7 the guillotine was first put to lethal use on april 25 1792 at 330 pm in paris at the place de greve on the right bank of the seine. it separated highwayman nicolas jacques pelletiers head from the rest of his body. the device was perfected - though not invented- by doctor joseph ignace guillotin (1738 - 1814). the e at the end of the noun is a later british addition. ironically he belonged to a movement seeking to abolish capital punishment altogether. guillotine-like implements were used on delinquents from the nobility in germany italy scotland and persia long before the good doctors era. guillotin and german engineer and harpsichord maker tobias schmidt improved and industrialized it. it was schmidt who transformed the blade changing it from round to the familiar form and placing it at an oblique 45 degree angle. the process of severing the head - the blade falling cutting through the tissues and severing the head - took less than half a second. more than 40000 people were guillotined during the french revolution and in its immediate aftermath (1789-1795). nor was the guillotine abandoned after the french revolution. as late as 1870 one leon berger an assistant executioner and carpenter added a spring system which stopped the mouton at the bottom of the groves a lockblocking device at the lunette and a new release mechanism for the blade. the murderer hamida djandoubi was beheaded on september 10 1977 in marseilles france drishti current affairs buy online.

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