Vulcan

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Vulcan may refer to:

Mythology

• Vulcan (mythology), the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the forge in Roman mythology

Arts, entertainment and media

Film and television

• Vulcan (Star Trek), name of a fictional race and their home planet and language in the Star Trek franchise
• Black Vulcan, a fictional African American superhero on the animated series Super Friends
• Kamen Rider Vulcan, a character in the series Kamen Rider Zero-One
• Vulcan, a fictional planet in the Doctor Who season The Power of the Daleks

Print

• Vulcan (Fleetway), a 1975–1976 IPC Comic
• Vulcan (DC Comics), a fictional character
• Vulcan (Marvel Comics), a fictional supervillain
• Vulcan!, a 1978 Star Trek novel by Kathleen Sky
• The Vulcan, a magazine from various organizations within the Young Fine Gael
• Vulcan, a gay pornography magazine, made famous in a High Court test case by serial killer Dennis Nilsen
• Vulcan, a fictional series of artificial intelligences (Vulcan 2 and 3) in Vulcan's Hammer
• Vulcan (comics), several meanings

Other arts, entertainment and media

• Vulcan statue, the world's largest cast-iron statue and the city symbol of Birmingham, Alabama, US
• Vulcan (EP), an EP by Snake River Conspiracy
• Vulcan, an album by Chris Wood
• Vulcan Raven, a character in the Metal Gear Solid video games
• Aegis Vulcan, a spaceship in the Star Citizen video game
• "Vulcan Bomber", a song by Nebula from the 1998 EP Let It Burn

Volcanoes

• Vulcano or Vulcan, an active volcano island in Italy
• Vulcan (volcano), a volcano in Papua New Guinea
• Vulcan (inactive volcano), a dormant volcano in Albuquerque, New Mexico, US

Places

Canada

• Vulcan, Alberta, a town in the province of Alberta
  • Vulcan Airport
  • Vulcan County, a municipal district
  • RCAF Station Vulcan, a former Commonwealth and RCAF training station

Romania

• Vulcan, Brașov, a commune in Brașov County
• Vulcan, Hunedoara, a city in Hunedoara County
• Vulcan, a village in Apold Commune, Mureș County
• Vulcan, a village in Ciuruleasa Commune, Alba County
• Blăjeni-Vulcan, a village in Blăjeni Commune, Hunedoara County
• Buceș-Vulcan, a village in Buceș Commune, Hunedoara County

United States

• Vulcan, Colorado, a ghost town, where Vulcanite was discovered
• Vulcan, Michigan
• Vulcan, Missouri
• Vulcan, West Virginia

Extraterrestrial

• Vulcan Planitia, a plain on Pluto's moon Charon

Science and technology

• Vulcan (hypothetical planet), a hypothetical planet once thought to be between Mercury and the Sun
• Vulcanoid, a hypothetical population of asteroids between Mercury and the Sun
• Vulcan (programming language), a database/programming language, now known as dBase
• Vulcan laser, a laser at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, England
• Vulcan palm (Brighamia insignis), a plant

Military

• Avro Vulcan, a British delta-winged strategic bomber
• HMS Vulcan, various ships
• USS Vulcan, three ships
• M163 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a US self-propelled, antiaircraft Gatling gun
• M167 VADS (Vulcan Air Defense System), a US Army towed, short-range, antiaircraft Gatling gun
• M61 Vulcan, a 20mm six-barreled Gatling gun
• Vulcan M-11-9, a semiautomatic, closed-bolt pistol manufactured by Vulcan Armament

Organisations

• Vulcan (Turku shipyard), a former shipyard in Turku, Finland
  • Crichton-Vulcan, an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland
• Stettiner Vulcan AG, a former shipyard in Hamburg, Germany
• Vulcan (motor vehicles), a car and commercial vehicle manufacturer based in Southport, England
• Vulcan Foundry, a former British locomotive builder, and "Vulcan village" workers cottages
• Vulcan Iron Works, several mechanical engineering companies in the nineteenth century in England and the US
• Vulcan Materials Company, a construction materials company headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama, US
• Vulcan Inc., an investment company formed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen
• Vulcan Software, a British computer game company
• Vulcan Capital Management, a US private equity firm

Sports

• Vulcan changeup, a type of baseball pitch
• Auckland Vulcans, a rugby league team that plays in the NSW Cup
• Birmingham Vulcans, a 1975 World Football League team
• California Vulcans, the sports teams of California University of Pennsylvania
• The Vulcans, the athletic teams of the University of Hawaii at Hilo

Vehicles

Cars and motorcycles

• Aston Martin Vulcan, a 2015 sports car only for the racetrack
• Ford Vulcan engine, an automobile engine
• Kawasaki Vulcan, a series of cruiser-type motorcycles

Trains

• NZR RM class (Vulcan), a former type of railroad car found in preservation in New Zealand
• Vulcan (1874-1892), a South Devon Railway Buffalo class steam locomotives
• Vulcan (1951-1967), a BR 'Britannia' Class locomotive
• Vulcan, a British Rail Class 47 diesel locomotive no: D1676 (later 47090, 47623, 47843), used since April 1965

Other vehicles

• Vickers Vulcan, a biplane airliner of the 1920s
• Vulcan Centaur, a rocket launch system developed by the United Launch Alliance
• Vulcan (barge) (1819), the world's first all iron-hulled boat

Other uses

• Vulcan (surname), a surname
• Operation Vulcan, an Allied action in Tunisia during World War II
• The Vulcan, Cardiff, a former historic public house in Wales
• Vulcan Hotel (Saint Bathans), Saint Bathans, New Zealand
• The Vulcans, George W. Bush's foreign policy advisory team for the 2000 U.S. election
• Vulcan Nuclear Reactor Testing Establishment, in Dounreay, Scotland

See also

• Volcan (disambiguation)
• Vulcain (disambiguation)
• Vulcana (1875–1946), Welsh female bodybuilder
• Vulcanair, an Italian-based manufacturer of light twin-engined aircraft
• Vulcanization, a chemical process to improve the strength and durability of rubber
• Vulcanite, a rare copper telluride mineral
• Vulkan (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Vulcan 
• All pages with titles containing Vulcan

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This page was last edited on 10 May 2024, at 02:32