Whirlpool Bath
notes: label: Description
content: Several members of the extended Jacuzzi family moved from northern Italy to California in the early twentieth century and the men found work as machinists. The first notable Jacuzzi Bros. product was an airplane propellor (the ‘Jacuzzi Toothpick’) used by the U.S. Military during World War I. In the late 1940s, after Candido Jacuzzi’s young son contracted rheumatoid arthritis and doctors suggested that whirlpool treatments might help him feel better, the Jacuzzis introduced a submersible pump that could be used in a bathtub. The firm donated this whirlpool bath to the Smithsonian in 1982.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Candido Jacuzzi, 83, is Dead; Inventor of Whirlpool Bath,” New York Times (Oct. 10, 1986), p. D18.
label: Description
content: “Inventor of Whirlpool Bath Dies At Age 83,” Los Angeles Times (Oct. 11, 1986), p. 30.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jacuzzi Whirlpool Bath
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0121.01
label: accession number
content: 1982.0121
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0121.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bath, Whirlpool
label: Other Terms
content: Bath, Whirlpool; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: motor: 15 1/4 in x 9 1/8 in x 10 1/2 in; 38.735 cm x 23.1775 cm x 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: motor: 16 1/8 in x 10 1/2 in x 10 1/2 in; 40.9575 cm x 26.67 cm x 26.67 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: p7107: 38 in x 72 in x 48 in; 96.52 cm x 182.88 cm x 121.92 cm