`  == Things are looking up? ==  I'm surprised that the mention of History Channel's Surviving History episode, broadcast in 2008, been removed as ``not very important``. Have there been any other television appearances? A complete reconstruction seems notable. It is difficult to find any [[WP:RS] sources. All nine episodes from the series were released as a DVD, so there are links at imbd, e.g:  and at Amazon: . but I see that one of the reviewers at Amazon describes the device as ``a forerunner to the guillotine, in which the victims faced upward toward their impending doom``. Is this true? I can't see any mention in the article of how the victims lay in the device.   `