Hydraulic pump
Artefact
Pump fitted by Candido Jacuzzi to the family bath. Innocent machinery before history discovered the communal spa.
Appears in
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Connections
Used by
- Candido Jacuzzi used by (2 passages)
Where they turn up
- Bath installed in (1 passage)
From the books (1 passage)
One day in 1948, the inventor Candido Jacuzzi appropriated one of the hydraulic pumps manufactured by the family firm at their factory in Chino, California. Candido took the pump home and fitted it to the family bathtub, hoping to replicate at home the hydrotherapy treatment, which his son Kenny had been receiving in hospital for his chronic rheumatoid arthritis. In 1955, Jacuzzi Brothers began to market the pump – by…