After a few years as shipping trainee, Jacob, now working as a shipbroker in New York, conceived the idea for a new pump and pipeline system for tank ships which would permit a tanker to safely segregate multiple grades of dangerous chemicals.
After a few years as shipping trainee, Jacob, worked as a shipbroker in New York. There, he was briefly associated with Charles Steuber Sr., who conceived of the idea for a new pump and pipeline system for tank ships which would permit a tanker to safely segregate multiple grades of dangerous chemicals.