Henry Richardson was an American engineeer who served as Chief Engineer for General Electric's Plastics Division and became co-founder of DeBell & Richardson, Inc.. He established production for a wide variety of plastics material processes and applications covering an extraordinary range of products still in use today.

He graduated from the University of Colorado in 1925 in Electrical Engineering, and subseqeuntly worked at the General Electric Company from 1925 to 1943. From 1925 to 1928 he was given advanced training and also taught an Advanced Course in Engineering while pursuing research work in electrical machinery and in Statistical Methods of Business Analysis. From 1928 to 1936 he was commercial engineer in charge of development of applications for molded and laminated plastic products. From 1936 to 1943 he was chief engineer in charge of all engineering, development, and research work in five GE plants.

In 1943 Richardson joined John M. DeBell in founding the consulting company DeBell & Richardson, Inc. in Hazardville, Connecticut.

Richardson was recipient of the Naval Ordinance Development award in 1945 and co-author of "Fundamentals of plastics," (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1946). He was also Chairman, Rubber and Plastics Division, A.S.M.E. in 1947.

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"In the News," Modern Plastics 21:4 (Dec 1943), 154