For example, when he was 13 years old, he and his father, Wallace Milton Minto, piled up over 50 tons of uranium-rich ore in Sparta, New Jersey.
[2] He was instrumental in convincing Albert Einstein to write a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt (dated August 2, 1939) stressing the need for the United States to expand its experimentation with Atomic Energy, leading to the Manhattan Project.
[citation needed] Minto discovered the method by which fish communicate, which is referenced in the July 1965 issue of Popular Mechanics.
[citation needed] Minto invented a non-polluting, organic Rankine cycle engine,[3] which was licensed to Nissan Motor Company in 1972.
Its purpose was to replace the mundane task of oxen and mules walking around in circles to grind corn or wheat and for the operation of a low-technology irrigation system.