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The whirlpool tub
A whirlpool tub is a modern, luxurious item
found in glamorous settings like resorts, the homes of the rich and
famous, and health spas that cater to people who can afford to be pampered
from head to foot. But they are not actually such glamorous luxury items,
if you look at them in the context of the history of the whirlpool bath,
which began in actuality many many centuries ago, and long before the
invention of the electric motorized versions of the tubs that are so
popular and well know today.
Although a man from Italy who lived in California is the one mostly
associated with the kinds of hot tubs and whirl pool baths we know of and
use today, the first such tubs were found in nature, where streams,
creeks, rivers, or springs created basins of moving water currents for
people to sit in and soak. The ones that are most famous and the earliest
ones recorded in history are those that are over sources of mineral water,
carbonated water from under the earth that is carbonated by passing over
limestone or calcite, and thermal currents of water that are found where
the water comes from deep inside the earth where the earth's own core
heats it up to the same temperature normally associated with a typical hot
tub.
The natural spas of the world are still available in some places. For
example, in Arkansas and North Carolina in the USA, there are towns named
Hot Springs, because there are natural thermal water sources in those
places, where you can go and soak in a hot tub made for you by Mother
Nature.
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