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2. Paper cutter - Wikipedia

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   A paper cutter 1820s old style paper cutter A safety (rotary) paper cutter Large format paper cutter Small format paper cutter, part of the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin, Germany. A paper cutter, also known as a paper guillotine or simply a guillotine, is a tool often found in offices and classrooms. It is designed to administer ...

3. Guillotine cutting - Wikipedia

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   Guillotine cutting is the process of producing small rectangular items of fixed dimensions from a given large rectangular sheet, using only guillotine-cuts. A guillotine-cut (also called an edge-to-edge cut ) is a straight bisecting line going from one edge of an existing rectangle to the opposite edge, similarly to a paper guillotine .

4. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin - Wikipedia

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   Proposing a painless method for executions, inspiring the guillotine Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ( French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃] ; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician , politician , and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France , as a less painful method of execution than ...

5. Guillotine - Wikipedia

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   The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1789 and 1821. A guillotine (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ə t iː n / GHIL-ə-teen / ˌ ɡ ɪ l ə ˈ t iː n / GHIL-ə-TEEN / ˈ ɡ i j ə t i n / GHEE-yə-teen) [1] is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled ...

6. Talk:Paper cutter - Wikipedia

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   It's possible that the more industrial apparatus you describe is called a "paper cutter" in English; honestly I'm unsure what they'd be called in English. It might also be that massicot is a broader term. —/Mendaliv/ 2¢ / Δ's / 20:13, 24 July 2010 (UTC) I worked in the printing industry for a few years running a 'paper cutter' not guillotine.

7. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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   Cutting the skin of the victim by the spine, breaking the ribs so they resembled blood-stained wings, and pulling the lungs out through the wounds in the victim's back. Possibly used by the Vikings (of disputed historicity). Boiling: Carried out using a large cauldron filled with water, oil, tar, tallow, or even molten lead. Breaking wheel