Homer L. Dodge

Bio: Homer L. Dodge is an academic researcher from American Physical Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vacuum tube. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 2 citations.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Continental Shelf, and a New Arctic Continent

Abstract: Between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, roughly two hundred expeditions set out for what is now the Canadian Arctic, from its boundary with Alaska in the West, along the northern shore of Canada and including the Arctic archipelago between that shore and the pole, to the marine boundary with Danish Greenland in the East. For more than half a century, these expeditions were little concerned with Canada as a political entity; after all, it had not yet been truly created as a nation. Besides, science was a major part of the mandate of many of the Arctic expeditions, almost half of which achieved significant scientific results; and science, while partly a national activity, was also a trans-national one. John Franklin's last expedition, made famous by disaster, had, typically, been largely motivated by scientific curiosity; the resolution of geomagnetic questions loomed large in Franklin's instructions.

The Russo-German Question, 1918–1920

Abstract: In Churchill’s judgment, the central problem that confronted the Allies in their attempts to consolidate victory and make a lasting peace was the need to equalize the disproportionate power of France and Germany. With his instinctive sympathy for France, and French longings for security, Churchill sought to alleviate these anxieties through the establishment of a system of integrated checks and guarantees that would decisively curb the threat of a resurgent, aggressive German militarism. At its base, this system would rest upon the traditional European balance of power. Although three of the great Empires of Europe were in ruins, the British Secretary of War believed it would be possible to reconstruct some of its more significant facets. In particular, he wished to liberate the Russian Empire from the dissolution and chaos into which the Bolsheviks had plunged it, thereby restoring Russia to her long-established role as the “counterpoise of Europe.”