The First Hot Tub Wasn't for Fun? ???? #shorts - Video

The first Jacuzzi wasn't built for fun. It was built for a sick little boy. Ken Jacuzzi got rheumatoid arthritis as a toddler, and warm whirlpool baths at the hospital eased his pain. So in the late 1940s his dad, Candido Jacuzzi, turned the family's farm water pump into a pump that could make the same healing swirl at home in a normal bathtub. In 1968, Roy Jacuzzi built the jets right into the tub, and the whirlpool bath for relaxing was born.

The twist? Before pumps or tubs, the Jacuzzi brothers' first big product was a wooden airplane propeller.

Facts that sound fake. They're not.

Sources: Smithsonian National Museum of American History, "Whirlpool Bath" object record; Jacuzzi.com, "The History of Hydromassage" and arthritis history page; The New York Times, "The Frothy Saga of the Jacuzzi Family" (Aug 2023). All visuals are our own illustrations (generic tub and pump, no logo).

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