Candido Jacuzzi
Historical person
Inventor of the whirlpool bath, by way of filial piety and a hydraulic pump. Unwitting progenitor of Jacuzzi Culture and much subsequent grief.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
Connections
Attends
- Bath associated with location (1 passage)
- Chino, California associated with location (1 passage)
Uses
- Hydraulic pump uses (2 passages)
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…