Vulcan

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Contents 1 Fiction 2 Places 3 Companies 4 Vehicles 4.1 Aircraft 4.2 Land vehicles 4.3 Water vehicles 5 Weapons 6 Sports 7 Other uses 8 See also

Vulcan may refer to Vulcan (mythology), the blacksmith god of fire and volcanoes in Roman mythology. The name may also mean:

Fiction

• Vulcan (Star Trek), a science-fictional humanoid race in Star Trek.
  • Vulcan (Star Trek planet), the home planet of the Vulcans
  • Vulcan!, a 1978 Star Trek novel by Kathleen Sky
• Vulcan (DC Comics), a character from DC Comics
• Vulcan (Marvel Comics), a character in the Marvel Comics universe
• Vulcan (comic), an Ipc Comic produced in England from 1975-1976
• Vulcan 2 and 3, artificial intelligences in Vulcan's Hammer

Places

• Vulcan, Alberta, Canada
  • Vulcan Airport
  • RCAF Station Vulcan, a Commonwealth and RCAF training station, closed in April 1945
• Vulcan, Romania, in Hunedoara County in the Jiu Valley
• Vulcan, Braşov, also in Romania in Braşov County
• Vulcan, Michigan, United States
• Vulcan, Missouri, United States
• Vulcan (volcano), a volcano in Papua New Guinea

Companies

• Vulcan (motor vehicles), a car and commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Southport, England
• Vulcan Corporation, a materials manufacturing company in Clarksville, Tennessee
• Vulcan Foundry, a former British locomotive builder
• Vulcan Iron Works, a former United States locomotive builder
• Vulcan Materials Company, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama
• Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
• Vulcan Software, a British computer game company
• Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
• Bremer Vulkan, a German shipyard (German spelling)

Vehicles

Aircraft

• Avro Vulcan, a British delta-winged, subsonic, bomber aeroplane
• Vickers Vulcan, a single-engined biplane of the 1920s

Land vehicles

• Ford Vulcan engine, a 3.0L V6 automobile engine
• Kawasaki Vulcan, a series of cruiser-type motorcycles
• NZR RM class (Vulcan), a former type of railroad car found in preservation in New Zealand
• Vulcan (1874-1892), one of the ten South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
• Vulcan (1951-1967), one of the BR 'Britannia' Class locomotives

Water vehicles

• Vulcan (barge), an iron-hulled boat
• HMS Vulcan, one of several Royal Navy ships or boats
• USS Vulcan, one of several United States Navy ships or boats

Weapons

• M167 Vulcan, a towed, short-range. air-defense Gatling gun
• M61 Vulcan, a 20mm six-barreled Gatling gun
• M163 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a self-propelled, air-defense, Gatling gun
• Vulcan M-11-9, a semi-automatic, closed-bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament

Sports

• Birmingham Vulcans, a 1975 World Football League team
• California Vulcans, the sports teams of California University of Pennsylvania
• The Vulcans, the University of Hawaii at Hilo's athletic teams

Other uses

• Vulcan (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical planet between Mercury and the Sun
• Vulcan (programming language), a programming language, now known as dBase
• Vulcan (EP), an EP by Snake River Conspiracy
• The Vulcans, George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team for the 2000 U.S. election
• The Vulcan, a magazine from various organizations within the Young Fine Gael
• Vulcan laser, a laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, Oxfordshire
• Vulcan of the alchemists, the patron deity associated with Paracelsian alchemy
• Operation Vulcan, Allied action in Tunisia during World War II
• Vulcan statue, the world's largest cast-iron statue (of the god) and the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama
• Maptek Vulcan, 3D Mining software

See also

• Volcano
• Vulcana, a Welsh female bodybuilder
• Vulcano, a small volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea
• Vulcanair, an Italian based manufacturer of light twin-engined aircraft that took over Partenavia
• Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
• Vulcanoid asteroid
• Vulcanization, a chemical process to improve the strength and durability of rubber
• Black Vulcan, a fictional African American superhero on the animated series Super Friends
• Vulcan Raven, a character in Metal Gear Solid

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