"Timken Tank","Cunningham Sanitarium".
Built in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, to
Dr. Orval J. Cunningham's specifications.
Industrial tycoon H.H. Timken, Canton, Ohio, gave Dr. Orval J. Cunningham $1,000,000.
Timken's industry, ball bearings, Canton, Ohio.
Probably biggest hyperbaric chamber ever built.
Monstrous steel sphere of 19,5 m in diameter.
Volume of 3880 m3.
Dished steel segments riveted together.
6 stories & 72 rooms.
Hundreds of windows.
Smoking-room.
Dining & recreation rooms.
Music theater with large grand piano.
Treatment sphere with large personal locks.
Maximum working pressure 2 bar.
Pressurized with compressed air.
Air pressurized in large tube-like apparatus to left of sphere.
No longer used for hyperbaric therapy after a few short years.
Missed chance for a hyperbaric museum.
Original Photo from 1928.