Roy Jacuzzi was a third generation Italian

Italy

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 immigrant to the United States of America. In 1968 he helped market the first self-contained, fully integrated Jacuzzi

Jacuzzi

Jacuzzi is a company that produces whirlpool bathtubs and spas. Its first product was a bath with massaging jets. The term "jacuzzi" is now often used generically to refer to any bathtub with massaging jets.-History:...

 whirlpool bathhttp://www.jacuzzi.com/about/history.php. First generation Jacuzzi family member, Candido Jacuzzi

Candido Jacuzzi

Candido Jacuzzi was an Italian immigrant to the United States of America. Candido Jacuzzi invented the Jacuzzi whirlpool bath for his son, Kenny Jacuzzi, 15-month-old son who was born with rheumatoid arthritis. He developed a pump that enabled a whirlpool to be created in a bath as a...

was the inventor of the original portable, in-home Jacuzzi Whirlpool pump, see . The water pumps that inspired the whirlpool bath were a family invention, meant to help soothe arthritis symptoms. Roy and the Jacuzzi company hold more than 250 patents for inventions in fields ranging from pump systems to jet technology http://www.jacuzzi.com/about/press_bathfaq.php.