But the one-inch-thick nylon rope holding the spool snapped, transit officials said, and the spool rolled down the stairs, hitting the two women, Andresa Kippins, 73, of Bedford-Stuyvesant and Blanca Valentin, 40, of the Bronx.
The engine used was the twin spool Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593, a development of the Bristol engine first used for the Avro Vulcan bomber, and developed into an afterburning supersonic variant for the BAC TSR-2 strike bomber.
The spool will roll toward you — in the direction you're pulling.
The spool will roll away from you if you raise your hand high enough as you pull.
Use the first two comments after this post to indicate which way you think the spool will roll.
The spool will roll toward you if you keep the twine parallel to the table as you pull.
"Roll, roll, roll, roll, roll".
I park and get the camera and spool in a roll of Kodachrome.
Eastman had founded a company in Rochester to mass-produce gelatin dry-plate glass negatives, and after a few years he did away with the glass, inventing paper negatives that spooled onto a roll holder that fit into a standard plate camera.
