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2 unusual facts about spool


Spool

Spooling, Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On-line, transferring data between media concurrently with other work, in computing

Bobbin, a cylinder or reel on which a quantity of thread, yarn or wire is wound for use in a particular machine or device


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Downrigger

Downriggers consist of four major components, the weight, cable, pole or boom, and the spool.

Emma Spool

In Psycho II, Mrs. Spool, the cook at a diner in Fairvale, California urges owner Ralph Statler to make Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) — newly released from the mental institution he was institutionalized in during the original film — the cook’s helper.

Fishing reel

In 1948, the Mitchell Reel Company of Cluses, France introduced the Mitchell 300, a spinning reel with a design that oriented the face of the fixed spool forward in a permanently fixed position below the fishing rod.


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