A snip from the above SkyMatters link I have provided states, in part:
ELLIS RICHARDS, SR. / BERT SPARKS TAYLOR
..."We are first introduced to Mark’s grandfather, Ellis Richards, Sr. The 2009 conference notes state:
Ellis Loyd Richards, Sr., was a brilliant electronics engineer, and authored books on the subject. He worked with Tesla and on the Manhattan Project and the Philadelphia Experiment. He was a superintendent of Coyne Electrical Institute. He was also a leading expert in the early push for space flight. He worked at several think-tanks that conducted ‘underground’ research for the US. He invented the Richards Anti-Matter (RAM) Drive in the late '30s.
The 1930 Census Records document that Mr. Richards was a school superintendent and other material establishes that he worked at Coyne Electrical Institute (now called Coyne College). The college specializes in practical training in electrical systems. Today it offers programs in electrical systems and electrical construction and maintenance, as it appears to have done when Mr. Richards was there.
Mr. Richards wrote Diesel Engines and Diesel Electric Power, "a complete practical book of instruction on diesel engines, their construction, principles, operation, care and adjustment." (Chicago, F.J. Drake & Co., 1939.) No other title is listed in the world catalog of libraries (Melvyl). The cover page is shown on google books - although difficult to read it appears that his affiliations included the Electrical Association.
The public record indicates that Richards’s work was directed toward practical applications. He obtained no patents. I have not found any records showing that he was a leading expert on space flight or worked with Tesla. It might be said that if he was inventing anti-matter drives, then his work would have been kept secret, but much of the work of Tesla and other researchers is well known. Thomas Townsend Brown's research on anti-gravity, for instance, was very public and he obtained a number of patents. In contrast, the EDH claims about Mr. Richards stand alone..."